Questions related to systems with an integrated and discrete video card.
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?
On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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How to install the Nvidia Drivers
I just ordered the Nvidia GTX 560 card, which should arrive tomorrow. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu (10.10), or should I ...
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Android 3D acceleration in androVM with primusrun?
I have been trying an Android Virtual Machine called androVM on an Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit laptop with Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics configuration as the guest OS (details on the graphic cards below). I ...
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How to re-configure graphics from Intel integrated to Intel / ATI switchable?
Minimum goal: Ability to switch between the graphic cards without drivers re-installation. Restarting computer in the process is fine.
There are lots of 'how to get switchable graphics to work' ...
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Switching Graphics using Catalyst Control Center
I searched a lot on web and found that Linux is not still very good enough in switching graphics (dedicated to in-build). Unlike windows where we can shift to dedicated graphics in run time...
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Ubuntu and the HP Envy 15t-3200
Could someone post a tutorial on making Ubuntu 13.04 work with the HP Envy 15t-3200?
I own this laptop, and have had to use Windows so far. :(
There are several problems (touchpad, sound, etc), but ...
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AMD/AMD GPU Switching
I have two GPU's in my laptop, both of which are AMD.
Whenever I use the Catalyst Control Centre to change the GPU, nothing changes after reboot. In fact, when I do the fglrxinfo command the ...
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How to completely shutdown Ati card
I would like to know how do i prevent my Ati card from turning on when i enter on ubuntu 11.10. My bios only lets-me shutdown intel hd card or leave the both on but i want to know if is possbible to ...
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Support for Dell XPS 15 and HDMI working on hybrid graphics?
So there is a lot of buzz about hybrid graphics having a weak support. I'm currently considering buying a new laptop. Dell XPS 15 caught my eye. I will use it for work as well so I will need a large ...
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Am I using integrated or discrete graphics?
My work station is a Macbook Pro which has...
integrated graphics: Intel HD 3000
discrete graphics: Radeon XXXX...
I have installed drivers for the discrete graphics right after installation.
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Intel HDgraphics+NVIDIA GT540M+Nouveau working?
What i´ve learnt is, it´s not a good idea to buy new hardware and use Linux because of less support from the producers.
Machine: lenovoZ570, i7 x64,8GB, 700GB, Nvidia Optimus+Intel, 1366x768, ...
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Hybrid Graphics Functional won't work with my Asus UL30V anymore
The problem is that I am no longer able to boot in compatibility mode for just turning on my Nvidia graphics to install the driver. Because no login screen will appear if Ubuntu is loading.
In ...
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How to fix high power consumption on a hybrid-graphics laptop
I have a hybrid Radeon 6600M/Intel laptop, and I've installed the Ubuntu beta 2, hoping that I'd get a better battery life but I still seem to be getting high power consumption.
With radeon ...
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Hybrid graphics Intel/Radeon HD 6630M
I bought a Dell Vostro 3450 with hybrid GPU and I don't know how to configure properly, I think the fan is running at full speed, also I'm really new in this OS, so I would appreciate all the help you ...
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AMD-Intel Hybrid Graphics : Problem [duplicate]
My Laptop is an HP DV6 6121tx with 2 GPUs: An Integrated Intel one and an AMD HD6770M.
Now I just want to run Ubuntu on it without getting horrendous battery life and without it getting very hot ...
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How do I disable the discrete graphics and force the use of my integrated Intel HD graphics on an HP Envy 15t-3200?
I have been trying to blacklist my open source AMD Radeon driver so that my system will use only the Intel HD 4000 Ivy bridge graphics. What is the proper procedure? I am using xserver-xorg-video-ati, ...
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Should ATI catalyst be installed for sake of openCL?
I have a HP Envy 4 1025tx with Hybrid graphics. Although this is a 64bit system, I've installed 32bit Ubuntu on it for some reasons.(Hybrid graphics don't do well with 64bit Ubuntu.-"Some one on some ...
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How can I disable one Graphics card/GPU on my system? (Interchangeable graphics involved)
The problem I have is this:
I have a DELL laptop with 2 GPUs, an Intel integrated and high performance of AMD Radeon HD a 6470m, but Ubuntu does not detect it. However, the two are active at the same ...
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How do I turn off the discrete card on boot when there's no option in the BIOS?
I have quite old laptop - MSI CX620MX. It has two graphic cards - integrated Intel card and ATI Mobility Radeon HD545v.
I have installed WIN7 and ubuntu 12.04. I would like to know, how can I disable ...
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Fglrx causes serious bug-black screen!
I downloaded newest driver from Ati site and installed it...
Now at start-up I see a black screen and message:
"Your screen,graphics card,and input device settings could not be
detected ...
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Which of two video drivers am I using?
I am trying to figure out if my integrated intel graphics are being used rather than my discrete GeforceEFORCE 210M. When I check "Additional Drivers" under settings, it does not show any proprietary ...
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The right way to install fglxr (ATI/AMD Drivers) in 12.10?
I've recently and after testing several distros moved back to Ubuntu (I loved Debian, but Ubuntu felt more complete).
So the problem here is that I currently own an HP laptop (3315ep) with an ATI ...
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ubuntu integrated graphics suspend + hybrid graphics
My laptop uses a hybrid graphics hardware.
Using the vgaswitcheroo I am able to power off either card and switch between them correctly.
The issue is that the system wakes up/resumes from suspend ...
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Will Xorg 1.13 land in ubuntu 12.10?
I am asking this because there may be some Optimus Nvidia updates before next year April ubuntu release and i read somewhere its connected with 1.13 features? Or i am maybe wrong.
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Buying a new laptop with a Trinity AMD card in it?
As I said in the title the laptop has the AMD Trinity A10-4600M processor and that card has integrated graphics. But the laptop also has an AMD Radeon HD 7670M card in it. Will Ubuntu 12.04 be able to ...
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When I boot computer has only a black display
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 64x beside Windows 7.
When I start the computer, I have to choose between the operating systems, but when I choose Ubuntu, the display is black, only the cursor is ...
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vgaswitcheroo not selecting discrete card
I have a Dell 5110 laptop that has hybrid graphics. I have tried using vgaswitcheroo to some limited success, but I have still not been able to select my discrete ATI 6470 card. I use the following ...
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Ubuntu on hybrid GPU laptops
I am running Ubuntu on VAIO VPCSE (23FX) that contains hybrid graphics processing capabilities. It is equipped with:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor ...
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How do I know which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?
I have an Acer Aspire 5935G. It comes with hybrid grahics solution from Nvidia. It has two graphic cards; Nvidia GeForce 130GT M (discrete) and Intel mobile graphics series 4. I have just installed ...
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how to switch back to ATI card after using switcheroo?
I have been using switcheroo to turn off my ATI Radeon HD5650 using the switch:
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
This has worked perfectly. I've added it to /etc/rc.local.
The ...
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HDMI audio not working on hybrid graphics
I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop with Intel Sandybridge HD3000 / Ati Radeon 6490M switchable graphics. I am not very experienced in Ubuntu or Linux in general but I have installed 13.04 64bit, because ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics not working [duplicate]
With 12.10 I was able to use the solution provided in Ubuntu 12.10 AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics not working
How to make it work in 13.04 Raring Ringtail?
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How much power does a dedicated graphics card consume when only the integrated card is used?
My desktop machine has an Intel i5 CPU with integrated graphics and a dedicated geforce card. Through blacklisting the nvidia driver in Linux and by using two cables, I'm planning to use the ...
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hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Xubuntu 12.04
Following the instructions posted in
hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Ubuntu 11.10 with bumblebee 3.0?
Watching videos with hardware acceleration enabled gives me sound but no ...
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Has anyone gotten VMWare Workstation 9.0.1 working with vmxwrapper / nvidia optimus?
I have an optimus laptop and am desperate to be able to use my discrete GPU with virtual machines. Recently, a project called vmxwrapper has come out to allow this. However, I get the following ...
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Always use one GPU [duplicate]
I got a Linux-Box with 2 GPU (intel and nvidia). I'm using bumblebee (and primus) for using the nvidia card, but I'm quite far from be really satisfied.
I would like to know if there is a way to ...
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vgaswitcheroo + ATI radeon driver
I want both vgaswitcheroo and ati driver on same machine.
vgaswitcheroo is good at powersaving while I also want
powerful processing too. Most of the time I switch between
powersave and performance ...
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Vaio SB - Turn off AMD Graphics Card?
I've got a Vaio SB with Hybrid Graphics (Intel Graphics Card and AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series). It is running in Dual-Boot with Windows 7 and has the latest BIOS-Update. For reason that the ...
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Radeon HD + vgaswitcheroo
I have a Hp Envy4 1025tx machine. I've tried vgaswitcheroo and amdcccle. I'm happy with Vgaswitcheroo powersaving efficiency and amdcccle's performance. I want both of them on my system. Is there a ...
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Will installing CUDA for my Nvidia card make OpenCL available?
I'm trying to use a program called 'pyrit' which can use OpenCL. When I run the program, I get this warning:
Failed to load Pyrit's OpenCL-core ('Failed to enumerate OpenCL-platforms (Unknown ...
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Can't revert to the previous state of graphic experience
This might seem so similar to many other posts regarding Nvidia Optimus Graphic Cards troubles and the pain it inflicts on its Linux users but my question is actually simply how to go back to my last ...
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Why Can't I Use Unity 3D on an HP Pavilion g4?
I have recently bought a new computer and loaded Ubuntu 12.04 along side Windows 7. I have run /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and receive a no on Not Software Rendered, yes on everything else. I ...
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How to disable discrete GPU using NVIDIA drivers?
I have a DELL studio XPS 13 (aka 1340) as of 12.04 most things run smoothly out of the box, but I have some power draining and warmness issues (if not to be called terrible heat issues)
The system ...
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Samsung 7 Graphics Nightmare
I just bought a Samsung 7 laptop with the Amd Radeon hd 6490m an I installed the driver. Everything was working smooth and it was rendering nice until I rebooted it. I noticed that it wouldn't boot my ...
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vga_switcheroo and Intel HD 3000 on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm trying to get vga_switcheroo to enable my integrated Intel HD 3000 instead of my ATI card. My problem is that there is no vgaswitcheroo directory in /sys/kernel/debug/ on my system.
> grep -i ...
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How to use integrated Intel graphics instead of Nvidia graphics on MacBook Pro?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on MacBook Pro 15" 2010 (MacBookPro6,2) and I would like to use the integrated Intel graphics instead of the dedicated Nvidia graphics Ubuntu boots with on this ...
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How to disable intel GPU on boot without using BIOS [closed]
I have a Pavilion dv6-3182ea laptop with an ATI/Intel hybrid graphics, and I would like to know if it is possible to switch the Intel GPU off when Ubuntu 11.10 boots, I have tried to mess around with ...
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System freezes when using vgaswitcheroo [closed]
I'm using hybrid graphics on my notebook. It has an integrated Intel and a discrete Radeon HD 6650M graphic card.
When I want to switch to discrete card, the screen freezes and I can't do anything.
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How Detect Intel Graphic Processor?
My laptop has a nvidia 425 geforce video card!
I'm keen on to find wether my laptop has another(intel) graphic processor or not?
and so, enable Intel Integrated for usage!
How should i find this?
