Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:52:35 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Why would you stay away from Mac... >> >> More than from a Mac (which I find it very well designed machines) I >> would stay away from Apple (the company). I've never seen a company >> th

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-15 Thread Dan
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:05:06 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > Has anybody a good experience with switchable graphic cards? >>> >>> I can't tell for this, sorry ;-( >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> I went

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:05:06 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Has anybody a good experience with switchable graphic cards? >> >> I can't tell for this, sorry ;-( >> > > Hi, > > I went to the shop and tested a live ubuntu CD and it worked! The > wi

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Dan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:56:48 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: >>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card AMD Rade

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Martin, Martin Steigerwald wrote, on 09/14/11 09:35: > Hi Jörg! > > Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >> The status of the free radeon driver is available here: >> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature >> >> A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jörg! Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > The status of the free radeon driver is available here: > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature > > A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree) > is needed for the discrete graphic adapter. A HP Pavilio

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:56:48 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: >> >>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >>> AMD Radeon 6470M. >> >> Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum th

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The status of the free radeon driver is available here: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree) is needed for the discrete graphic adapter. A HP Pavilion DV7 with an integrated and a discrete graphic adapter (5470M) from AMD works

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-12 Thread Dan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >> AMD Radeon 6470M. > > Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user > talks about the status of

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: > I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card > AMD Radeon 6470M. Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user talks about the status of that card in his distribution: http://ubuntuforums.org/sh