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switcheroo to discrete turns off backlight on laptop screen
AMD cedar/ Intel ironlake hybrid graphics. Custom kernel 3.8.3. Free radeon xorg drivers.
When I switch from integrated to discrete, I do a killall lightdm and X doesn't automatically respawn like it ...
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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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1answer
510 views
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 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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1answer
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vgaswitcheroo isn't working in Ubuntu 12.04
I always used vgaswitcheroo to turn off my discrete graphic, I did a script to turn off in boot, but now, vgaswitcheroo isn't working anymore, I don't know why... look
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how to install swichable radoen hd 6470M drivers for ubuntu 12.04 LTS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ATI 6470m & intel HD graphics 3000 drivers?
i have hp pavilion g6 i5 laptop with Radoen hd 6470M switchable VGA. i installed it the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but VGA drivers ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 and ATI/AMD Radeon 5650
I have a laptop with freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 and ATI 4200/AMD Radeon 5650 hybrid graphics. The problem is that I can't switch between integrated and discrete video while using Catalyst driver ...
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1answer
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AMD Switchable Graphics (HP Probook 4530s-specific) - any way to enable?
I'm proud owner of not-that-expensive, yet powerful laptop (HP Probook 4530s). Being a fan, and every-day user of Ubuntu I was unable a way to use discrete GPU from of my laptop (hd6490), the only way ...
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How do I get the Radeon HD 6650M in my Lenovo G770 laptop working?
As stated in the topic, I have the following problem: there're two VGAs in my Lenovo G770 laptop with Ubuntu 11.04, namely Intel Mobile HD and AMD Radeon HD 6650M. And if integrated videocard is ...
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How can I choose which GPU to use from grub using vgaswitcheroo? [closed]
I have a notebook with switchable AMD/Intel Graphics. I use, successfully, vgaswitcheroo to choose the active GPU and disable the unused one by a script in rc.local.
However, I would like to be able ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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I have an Intel GPU and a AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5400 series GPU, multiple questions
They are the supposed to be Switchable, the Hybrid Graphics page seems to be a little dated (talking about 10.10 and kernel 2.6)
I'm not sure the AMD MRHD is working, how can I tell which graphics ...
