Dual Graphics Card No Hardware Acceleration

[David2010]

*Please Excuse me as English is NOT my First Language*

I installed pclinuxos LXDE yesterday and almost everything works right out of the box on my Hp Pavilion laptop. I had to wait quite some time for my hardware to be supported. The first time I tried to install Linux my wireless, audio, and video cards weren't supported yet.

Well its been exactly one year since then.

It occurred to me today that although the laptop runs smoothly I am unable to use any OpenGL based Application or Game.

Its one of those laptops that has a high performance ATI card and a power saving Intel card. Yeah... one of those.

I tried installing the proprietary ATI driver but it doesn't seem to support/recognize my card. However it works just fine in Windows 7.

It should be noted that there Is No /etc/X11/xorg.conf

lspci shows these video cards:

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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Robson CE [AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series]


glxinfo shows this:

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name of display: :0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig


/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/WaRpgGny

[T6]

hello and welcome to the forum!

unfortunately the support for this laptops with one intel and one amd or nvidia video cards are not supported properly yet on linux

if you can disable the intel video card on bios you might could get the amd driver to work

[David2010]

hello and welcome to the forum!

unfortunately the support for this laptops with one intel and one amd or nvidia video cards are not supported properly yet on linux

if you can disable the intel video card on bios you might could get the amd driver to work

Sadly my bios has no option to disable any video card.

The only things I can change are the boot order, time, and the date.

So.... I am pretty well out of luck for running Linux on this laptop then? That.... sucks.

Having hardware acceleration is a Must for me as I do 3D modeling in blender and some game programming on the side.

I guess I will wait another year and hope for the best. ;-(

[T6]

i'm sorry but this new hardware configuration doesn't have much support from the manufacturer on linux, maybe by the end of the year

i personally wouldn't buy one for this reason, too much problems and very little battery savings for a machine that will be connected most of the time

[eksplode]

Hello. I have the same problem. I didn't want to create new topic for this question so, My laptop is:
HP Pavilion dv6-6150sl
Intel core i5-2410m
8gb ram
AMD Radeon HD 6770m.
I've tried everything to make desktop effects work, unsuccessfuly.
I think there are no drivers created for this card on linux. The one from amd website is not working, it doesn't install at all or installs but when i try to open catalyst control center it says "no amd graphics card found.." on other distros like ubuntu it prompts me "restricted drivers available.." i can't install them, they crash while installing.
But it should be possible to make my integrated Intel HD video card work. I had working desktop effects on linux mint KDE under intel hd, i didn't need to install any drivers, they came with mint installation. But i don't like mint kde. This distro seems very nice, so please help me i'm still newbie to linux.
Oh, and how can i make this 32 bit system to read all of my ram? now it can see only 2.4gb.

Thank you