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[Similar Q at Is my AMD hybrid-graphics card supported by Ubuntu 16.04 driver? . However, I was asked to put a new question for my specifics.]

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I use AMD Radeon graphics. Is it compatible? Here are the results of sudo lshw -C video:

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:28 memory:c0000000-c03fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)

Results for glxinfo | grep rendering:

direct rendering: Yes

Results for lspci | grep VGA:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] (rev ff)

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Theoretically, your GPUs should work "out of the box" under Ubuntu 16.04, which should automatically be using the radeon driver for the HD 6400M. Unfortunately, since the HD 6400M predates the GCN architecture, you will be unable to use the newer and faster amdgpu driver.

To switch to the dGPU, you can follow the instructions on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#PRIME_GPU_offloading

So you would put something like the following in your .xprofile:

xrandr --setprovideroffloadsink radeon Intel

and then to run something with the dGPU, you would prepend the command with DRI_PRIME=1. For example:

DRI_PRIME=1 glxgears

(I believe it's possible to create a .desktop file that does this for specific applications, if you prefer a more graphical interface)

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