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[Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/22/2011 02:45 PM, Stanisław Kardach wrote:
> Hi again,
> 11.7 gives the same effect as 11.8: a segfault. If anyone had a similar
> problem and did manage to solve it then I'd be happy to send him my
> Xorg.log files (I don't want to spam the whole list).
>
> With Regards,
> Stanley Kardach
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:15 +0200, Stanisław Kardach wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm willing to ruin my Ubuntu set-up testing any new developments in
> > switchable graphics for muxless systems so as asked on the group's main
> > page I'm sending my basic info below:
> >
> > > sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> > Dell System Vostro 3450
> > > sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> > Not Specified
> > > lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd
> > Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
> > [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc NI
> > Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] [1002:6741] (prog-if 00 [VGA
> > controller])
> >
> > I'm running 3.0 kernel from Ubuntu Kernel Team along with xorg-edgers
> > and glasen intel drivers (for this lovely Sandybridge GPU boost):
> > > uname -a
> > Linux SKComp 3.0.0-7-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 30 06:17:29 UTC 2011
> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > X -version
> > X.Org X Server 1.10.3.902 (1.10.4 RC 2)
> >
> > So far I have tested Catalyst 11.6 and 11.8 from AMD site and none of
> > them seems to work even when forcing it to load via a hand-made
> > xorg.conf (results with segfault). I'm going to try 11.7 just to be sure
> > that AMD didn't break anything between releases.
> >
> > If I can help with anything please don't hesitate to write.
> >
> > With regards,
> > Stanley Kardach
>
>
>
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AMD muxless is only supported on Llano+Radeon notebooks like the HP dv6z.

Sandy+Radeon isn't supported.

The closest thing I could recommend right now is a hybrid-windump approach.

- Eric