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emitvaton

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 1

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Compatibility

I would like to purchase a DELL Vostro laptop with `Core i5` and `AMD Radeon HD 6630M`.
I'm not completely sure, but it will probably have the integrated `Intel Graphics HD 3000` card as well.
From your experience / knowledge, will this video card work with Arch (or Linux in general)? Will it _definitely_ be difficult to get working?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,389

Re: AMD Radeon HD 6630M Compatibility

laptops with integrated intel AND an AMD or Nvidia card tend to be a problem for linux.

you will have to use catalyst and amd's vgaswitcharoo (it's called something like that) method to be able to switch between the intel and the radeon card,

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simo3o

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Registered: 2011-12-07

Posts: 5

Re: AMD Radeon HD 6630M Compatibility

I am with the same problem as you are, currently I can turn off the radeon card with vga_switcheroo, but I can't use this card at all, when I switch to the radeon card and I restart Xorg it says client refuses to switch and my computer freezes so I have to hard reset the computer. I am with the open source driver, anyone knows what can be the problem? Thanks