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smudge508

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Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 2

Secondary graphics card not being recognised.

I just got my laptop back from being repaired, and it seems that, after freshly installing arch, the secondary GPU is not being recognised. I have used lspci and xrandr --listproviders and have come up with only the integrated card. Currently I am running on a samsung series 7 chronos 15.6 inch with the HD intel integrated chipset and a second  Raedon HD6490M. Any ideas? Thank you for any help you can give, and I hope my formatting was alright. I am new to the forum.

[fox@Fox ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 (rev 67)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
04:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller
[fox@Fox ~]$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x47 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 5 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
[fox@Fox ~]$

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Secondary graphics card not being recognised.

formatting : you did use code tags, but in future you might want to use multiple code blocks  to make output more readable.

As to your problem :

since lspci/xrandr doesn't show anything related to radeon cards, i suggest you look into bios/uefi settings.
As your laptop got repaired, chances are the settings have been set back to factory defaults.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2014-01-21 15:56:21)

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smudge508

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Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 2

Re: Secondary graphics card not being recognised.

I went back earlier today and tryed looking into my BIOS and came up with nothing. There, oddly enough, is no setting to enable or disable, or even set some sort of graphics card. I have; however, looked into the problem a bit more and by luck found that others with the same laptop had a sort of similar problem on windows, and they used the SWupdate tool to fix it. I am going to try sometime soon to make a small partition and install windows, and hopefully update the BIOS.