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My Laptop is an HP DV6 6121tx with 2 GPUs: An Integrated Intel one and an AMD HD6770M.

Now I just want to run Ubuntu on it without getting horrendous battery life and without it getting very hot after a few minutes.

My BIOS has 2 options regarding this: Fixed switching and Dynamic switching. In FIXED mode, in Windows, I could manually choose which GPU to run my system on. In DYNAMIC, in Windows, I could choose which apps would run on which GPU, switching was seamless.

Now I don't mind running Linux on ANY of these modes, I don't even require my AMD GPU for anything, I just do some general coding on Linux here and there.

So here's my question. What should I do to run my system on the Integrated Intel GPU? Very importantly please also mention that whatever method you suggest is for FIXED mode or DYNAMIC mode.

(Ubuntu 12.10)

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  • This is slightly different than the answer you've asked for but the best guide I've seen for installing the ATI drivers is here. Since you have a hybrid system, you are probably affected by this bug, but see the workaround here. The workaround solved the fan/heat problems on my DV6 with hybrid graphics. – chaskes Jan 16 '13 at 15:47

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