Envy 14 and the ATI driver.

[cgolson84]

Hey all. I recently bought a new Envy 14. The Envy 14 has switchable graphics which i figured would give me a problem. I am trying to get Ubuntu 10.10 onto it and have almost achieved it. I am able to load Ubuntu live and then install it. Everything including sound and wireless work perfectly out of the box. The issue comes when I try to install the ATI proprietary drivers. The drivers install and then when i restart it boots to a command prompt. When i run fglrxinfo (i think that was the command) it tells me it can't detect a graphics card. Any help would be awesome. I would love to run Linux on this laptop (running windows for 2 months has been painful).

[Mark Phelps]

Sorry ... but every thread I've read about "switchable graphics" has had the same problem -- basic inability to disable the onboard graphics in the BIOS.

Unless you can find a way in YOUR PC to disable the onboard graphics, you're probably NOT going to be able to get the ATI drivers to install and work.