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[Chris <dchris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I was planning on buying an HP Envy 13 but then I saw on Google that people
were having issues with this laptop and Linux.

According to my research there are two separate issues:
- Clickpad is not working out of the box (but a patch exist and apparently,
editing Xorg.cong on Ubuntu would suffice)
- Switchable graphics (Intel/ATI) is not handled well by Linux kernel nor by
xorg.

I know that there were commit in Linux kernel v2.6.35 (called "switcheroo"
[1]) supposed to handle switchable graphics
on kernel side. Has anyone tried recent kernel v2.6.35 release candidates on
HP Envy (with switchable graphics)?

It is available for Ubuntu v10.04 (Lucid) here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc1-lucid/

Kind regards,
Chris.

[1]
http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/vgaswitcheroo/0001-vga_switcheroo-initial-implementation-v10.patch
(By David Airlie)