AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics works

[Alexislavie]

Today appears a new update here and I've updated.
One of package was Xorg xserver video. Now video is flickering (tearing) a lot!!! Be careful! Do not update xorg xserver video.

No problem for me.
On igpu or dgpu ?

[Niccola]

No problem for me.
On igpu or dgpu ?

both of them. Possible fix after re-installing driver. I will check it tomorrow

[Pay87]

Hi! First of all thank your for this guide!
I only have one problem..

When I switch the gpu I get the following error:

PowerXpress info: Diagnostic output from /usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibglx:
update-alternatives: Warning: /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd skipped because /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) does not exist.

Any idea how to fix this?

[Gelai]

Is this Method Works Perfectly on 12.04 Kernel-PAE ..?
i've just have fresh installed of 12.04 on my Notebook.
wondered if this method doesnt mess-up with the system
like what i've experienced on 11.10-Oneiric. that I
always get my VGA Not-Working after PAE installed.

Thanks so much

[Niccola]

Hi! First of all thank your for this guide!
I only have one problem..

When I switch the gpu I get the following error:

PowerXpress info: Diagnostic output from /usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibglx:
update-alternatives: Warning: /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd skipped because /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) does not exist.

Any idea how to fix this?

I've got the same error after update the system. But it was solved reinstalling the driver again.
So, Try to reinstall the driver!

[Alexislavie]

I've got the same error after update the system. But it was solved reinstalling the driver again.
So, Try to reinstall the driver!

This is a warning, not an error, I've got the same and I do not care about it.

[balta]

HP Pavillion G6 1356el, Intel HD 3000, AMD 7450M*, HDMI Intel/AMD: not tested/not tested, VGA Intel/AMD: not tested/not tested

*It is a 7450M but it's detected as a 6400 under Ubuntu (don't know why, still everything seems to work fine)

Will update as soon as I can do a proper battery test.

Big thanks!

[Gelai]

Have Tried it and followed your instructions and also here http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...xorg.conf_file still got the same Problem. it boot with saying "Low Graphics" then to Terminal. i tried also the step 2 on the terminal using nano editor. still no luck. My machine is HP Pavillion G6 1045SX Core i5 AMD 6470M hybrid.
i also did uninstall the drivers and update my machine via Software Update and on terminal. and Tried to do it again, and still don't work.

any idea.?

[Entomologist]

What-oh, what-oh!!
First of all, let me compliment you on that tutorial of yours, great stuff.
However, if i may ask you an advice:
I'm using an ACER aspire timeline X 5820 TG with Ubuntu first installed as 11.04, and then upgraded to 12.04 .

lspci |grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Robson CE [AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series] (rev ff)

The problem was that, with fglrx installed, any program looking for OPENGL would exit saying:

...loading libGL.so.1:
Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 3: 640 480
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13

Therefore, I looked for a solution via

http://askubuntu.com/questions/81344/how-to-fix-error-with-ati-driver-error-of-failed-request

Though I found out that the radeon card was blacklisted but fglrx wasn't.

more /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx.conf
# This file was installed by fglrx
# Do not edit this file manually

blacklist radeon
alias fglrx fglrx
alias radeon off
alias lbm-radeon off

Still I tried to reinstall completely fglrx, by

sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx

It still wouldn't work. Now coming to the particular problem, while trying your solution, I found that,while accomplishing the first step installing-the-fglrx*.deb-part, the following problem was happening:

sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx.
(Lecture de la base de données... 457071 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Dépaquetage de fglrx (à partir de fglrx_8.961-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Dépaquetage de fglrx-amdcccle (à partir de fglrx-amdcccle_8.961-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-dev.
Dépaquetage de fglrx-dev (à partir de fglrx-dev_8.961-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Paramétrage de fglrx (2:8.961-0ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: utilisation de «*/usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf*» pour fournir «*/etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf*» (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) en mode automatique.
update-alternatives: avertissement: création de /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd abandonnée car le fichier associé /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (du groupe de liens x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) n'existe pas.
update-alternatives: avertissement: forçage de la réinstallation de l'alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf car le groupe de liens x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf est cassé
update-alternatives: avertissement: création de /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd abandonnée car le fichier associé /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (du groupe de liens x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) n'existe pas.
update-alternatives: utilisation de «*/usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf*» pour fournir «*/etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf*» (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) en mode automatique.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Loading new fglrx-8.961 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.2.0-26-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.2.0-26-generic
Done.

fglrx:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Traitement des actions différées («*triggers*») pour «*ureadahead*»...
Traitement des actions différées («*triggers*») pour «*bamfdaemon*»...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Paramétrage de fglrx-amdcccle (2:8.961-0ubuntu1) ...
Paramétrage de fglrx-dev (2:8.961-0ubuntu1) ...
Traitement des actions différées («*triggers*») pour «*initramfs-tools*»...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-26-generic
Traitement des actions différées («*triggers*») pour «*libc-bin*»...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place......
Done.

And so this is where it finally caught up with me:

aticonfig --initial -f
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

BTW FYI, those following links do not exist anymore >.<

/usr/lib/pxpress/ld.so.conf
/usr/bin/amdupdaterandrconfig
/usr/lib/pxpress/alt_ld.so.conf
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf
"update-alternatives: avertissement: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules ne sera pas remplacé par un lien."

So feeling like I shoot myself in the foot big time, I'm humbly asking you what should I do in order to repair those broken links, and try your solution with my particular configuration.
I do thank you very much in advance for an kind of answer you might give me(or anyone else for that matter).
Cheers

[cyanide911]

I got the above fix working properly on my HP DV6 6121tx, Mint 13.

But one thing I'm noticing, on integrated graphics, if I plug my laptop to the charger, it starts to heat up in the area where it heated up if I ran it on discrete graphics. Using the command in OP's post, I checked which GPU I was running. It still said integrated, but I'm skeptical about why it's getting heated so much.