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HP Presario CQ36-113tx discrete graphics getting in the way of start up (2010 model)

 

ccing the bug report to the list:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/534254

Can you try the latest Fedora Live CD, which I think went live
yesterday and I think includes some if not all of the vga_switcheroo
code?

> ubuntu live cd would not give me a desktop,
> so i installed the server edition, i got so far as getting it
> installed onto the disk, when i tried to boot into the new ubuntu
> install, i was greeted with a black display but with the backlight
> still turned on.
>
> this laptop has 2 graphics cards in it sharing the same lcd display. 1
> intergrated graphics card (i5 core) and a discrete graphics card (ati
> HD 4550)



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