Hybrid ati Intel laptop

[Dennis Linux]

If Catalist is not nessecary needed i've got no problem with it.
But what terminal code do i need to install the Radeon driver or what else?
I don't understand the way of driver use in Ubuntu and internet does make it confuse.
I didn't know that the videocard manufracters did that to Linux, but i heard last the founder of Linux against Nvidia and ati.

Regards Dennis

> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:10:24 +0100
> Subject: Re: Hybrid ati Intel laptop
> From: myriam at kde.org
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Dennis Linux <frankie-1 at hotmail.nl> wrote:
> > Hello, my uncle got a hp laptop with a ati 7800 hybrid and Intel chipset.
> > If i want to install the Cathalyst software from Ati, what have i to do to
> > let it work?
> 
> I strongly advise you against the Catalyst driver, those don't work as
> nearly as good on Linux compared to the ATI Radeon ones, provided you
> use KDE 4.9 at least, 4.10 is even better as KWin now supports OpenGL.
> 
> Also the driver needs to be installed before launching the laptop with
> that video-card. If you installed Kubuntu on that laptop normally the
> Radeon driver should already be available, provided it was using the
> ATI card at that moment. Else launching it with the embedded graphics,
> install the Radeon driver, then restart with the ATI card (these
> changes need to be done in the BIOS on start up) should just work.
> 
> Unlike Windows you can't switch the video card when already in
> graphical mode, that is not supported, and it is like this because the
> manufactures do not disclose the specifics to Linux. Don't blame Linux
> for that, the Hardware manufacturers do that on purpose.
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam
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