Tuesday, January 8, 2019

fglrx - AMD Radeon HD 5650M



Ok, so I've got the 5650 as a discrete gpu and integrated 4200. The problem is that I cant switch to 5650.
fglrxinfo shows that 4200 is on, but aticonfig -px-list shows that Discrete GPU is active.



lspci shows this:




01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]




02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Madison [AMD Radeon HD 5000M Series] [1002:68c1] (rev ff)




as xorg looks like this:




xorg device section:



Section "Device"




Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"



Driver "fglrx"



BusID "PCI:1:5:0"



EndSection





I thought that if I change busid to PCI:2:0:0 it'll help, but it won't.
looks like ubuntu can't see 5650 as with PCI:2:0:0 I cant run X.
any suggestions what to do?



Also I can't disable 4200 in BIOS



Have you tried switching with vgaswitcheroo? For more information on this topic, have a look at HybridGraphics in Ubuntu.
When it comes to owning vgaswitcheroo, I use:



sudo chmod -R 705 /sys/kernel/debug and




sudo chown -R $YOURUSERNAME:$YOURUSERNAME /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo



I don't use the proprietary drivers though.


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