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[Gareth McCumskey <gmccumskey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Currently I have an HP Pavilion dv7 that has duel Intel/ATi cards. 
Unfortuantely the 11.6 Catalyst drivers do not even support the ATi card 
alone, a 6XXXM model. Every attempt to install drivers results in 
aticonfig reporting "Display adapter not found".
Personally I don't need the switching capability, just drivers to make 
my 3D card work. Couldn't be bothered with the Intel one as I rarely if 
ever use my machine unplugged and then its only for an hour or so at most.
On 11/07/2011 09:36, Eric Appleman wrote:
> Update time!
>
> Hey guys, just figured I'd give a short, bulleted update of everything 
> that's going on with muxless Radeon laptops.
> * No change in driver support from OEMs or AMD on the Windows side of 
> things.
> * For Linux, things look much brighter. I've spoken to Alex Deucher of 
> AMD's open-source driver team and have learned that AMD's promise of 
> Linux support with dGPU OpenGL is not to be taken lightly. fglrx 11.4+ 
> does technically support PowerXpress (4.0?), but nobody has documented 
> the xorg.conf setup that's probably required to take advantage of 
> this. Short of figuring this out, all we'll get is segfaults. Both 
> Alex and David Airlie are positive that such work will be mostly an 
> adaptation of Bumblebee concepts. These are all short-term solutions. 
> The permanent Linux solution is X Hotplugging and Wayland work over 
> the next year or two.
> * Over the past month, coordinating the collection of DSDT/SSDT data 
> has been vigorous and fruitful. Patterns of hardware access are 
> emerging. However, it is time to move to the next phase and get the 
> physical hardware in the hands of the developers. Unfortunately, our 
> choices are a little limited at the moment: HP dv6-61xx 
> (6470m?/6750m+APU, 6470m?/6770m+HD3000), some models of the upcoming 
> HP dv4-3xxx (6750m+HD3000), some models (E220s?/E420?/E420s/E520) of 
> the new ThinkPad Edge series (6630m+HD3000) sold outside of the US, 
> Dell Vostro 3450/3550 (6630m+HD300).
> * Linux support on aforementioned laptops requires relatively recent 
> kernels and drivers, even more so with the Llano ones. Display is 
> achieved through -intel or -vesa. Radeon card is detected but cannot 
> be accessed except for the ACPI calls to turn it off and save power. 
> There are a few experienced Linux users with these laptops, one of 
> which runs Gentoo, who may still be able to provide useful information.
> * fglrx 11.7 is coming soon and I'm hoping for some promising release 
> notes.
> With all this said, I open the floor to further comments and ideas.
>
> - Eric
>
>
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