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[Ernest Russell <ernestrrussell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/963/

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccumskey@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Having some issues getting my hybrid graphics to work. Been having issues
> for a long time but now some headway is being made and hoping there is a fix
> for the problem I am still experiencing.
>
> I have an HP Pavilion dv7 notebook with an integrated Intel graphics card
> using the i915 driver. The discrete card is an Ati 6740. Today I downloaded
> the Catalyst 11.9 drivers and followed the instructions at the unnoficial
> wiki to install them. After installing I ran "aticonfig --initial -f" and
> the command worked, first time it has on this machine. With high hopes I
> rebooted. All was not well however.
>
> On reboot it got to the Ubuntu Plymouth bootscreen, then the logo gets
> garbled and the mouse cursor displays,but no login screen. The system
> underneath however is working. I can still login if I know which keys to
> press (Enter, password, Enter). If I switch to ctrl-alt-f1 then back with
> ctrl-alt-f7, I can then actually see the expected screen. However, any
> interaction runs but the screen does not get updated. I.e. click icon on
> unity launcher and the computer starts loading the program but I never see
> it happen. Ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f7 is necessary to see the changes on the
> desktop. It seems that the display is not being updated as it should, even
> though mouse displays fine.
>
> I have disabled tls and acpi-services to see if that helped but no joy.
> Does anyone have any input that might fix this? I seem so close, and would
> love to get my discrete card working.
>
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-E