Awesome XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/963/
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com>wrote: > Having some issues getting my hybrid graphics to work. Been having issues > for a long time but now some headway is being made and hoping there is a fix > for the problem I am still experiencing. > > I have an HP Pavilion dv7 notebook with an integrated Intel graphics card > using the i915 driver. The discrete card is an Ati 6740. Today I downloaded > the Catalyst 11.9 drivers and followed the instructions at the unnoficial > wiki to install them. After installing I ran "aticonfig --initial -f" and > the command worked, first time it has on this machine. With high hopes I > rebooted. All was not well however. > > On reboot it got to the Ubuntu Plymouth bootscreen, then the logo gets > garbled and the mouse cursor displays,but no login screen. The system > underneath however is working. I can still login if I know which keys to > press (Enter, password, Enter). If I switch to ctrl-alt-f1 then back with > ctrl-alt-f7, I can then actually see the expected screen. However, any > interaction runs but the screen does not get updated. I.e. click icon on > unity launcher and the computer starts loading the program but I never see > it happen. Ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f7 is necessary to see the changes on the > desktop. It seems that the display is not being updated as it should, even > though mouse displays fine. > > I have disabled tls and acpi-services to see if that helped but no joy. > Does anyone have any input that might fix this? I seem so close, and would > love to get my discrete card working. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Regards, -E
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