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[Bryce Harrington <755471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Sérgio, I haven't seen any announcements from AMD that it supports
hybrid graphics in general, just that (admittedly intriguing)
speculation on the phoronix blog.

Since hybrid graphics in general is incompletely implemented and still
rather buggy in the corner cases where it does work, we're not yet
accepting hybrid graphics functionality as a supported feature in
Ubuntu.  We try to ensure at least X doesn't crash when booted on such
systems but there is still too much for it to be done to work as
smoothly as Ubuntu users expect.

I agree with your comment #3 that hardware configurations like this
should stay with Intel graphics and not offer fglrx to be installed
until hybrid graphics switching is better supported.  Or, jockey should
offer to switch off the Intel chip for the user.

For more information see:
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/15694/how-do-i-disable-intel-graphics-in-a-hybrid-graphics-setup
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/2419/switching-between-graphics-cards

I will close out the -fglrx task at this point, so the bug will focus on
the smaller issue of jockey needing to recognize systems with hybrid
graphics.  The larger issue of needing hybrid graphics support is pretty
widely known.

** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  AMD Radeon HD 6550M: Driver was not installed or is not functioning
  properly.