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["Vangel V. Ajanovski" <ajanovski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Today I installed Ubuntu Control Center (UCC) which has an option for 
switching the graphics. I had the open source drivers installed only 
(with latest updates to x from xorg-edgers).

With this tool I was able to switch from Intel to ATI graphics (requires 
a log off, log on).

How did I know it has really switched?
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
it was Intel at first and ATI afterwards

This sounds promising (only at first).

Unfortunately the open-source drivers for ATI 5470 are not that good, 
because even the desktop effects were so much slower than Intel, to the 
point of being almost unbearable.

With proprietary drivers I can only get to this point:
[  1009.972] (==) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
[  1009.972] (==) fglrx(0): ATI 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
[  1009.972] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series 
" (Chipset = 0x68e0)
[  1009.972] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x103c, PciSubDevice = 0x1603)
[  1009.972] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics 
adapter - NOT original ATI
[  1009.972] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xa0000000
[  1009.972] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xc4400000
[  1009.972] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00003000
[  1009.972] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
[  1009.977] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
[  1009.980] evaluate ATRM failed
[  1009.980] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is 
not VGA-enabled
[  1009.981] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature!
[  1009.981] (EE) fglrx(0): GetBIOSParameter failed
[  1009.981] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter failed
[  1009.981] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
[  1009.981] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_x760_atiddxPreInit] === end
[  1009.983] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
[  1009.983] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[  1009.983] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[  1009.983] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[  1009.983]
Fatal server error:
[  1009.983] no screens found
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