[SOLVED] About hybrid video cards on a laptops

Ferreol

Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:12:26 am

I have a Dell Inspiron 5520 laptop and want to know how it's hybrid drivers will work? It's an intel HD graphics and ATI Radeon 7670m.

Ferreol

Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:46:22 am

I have a laptop Dell Inspiron 5520 with 2 video cards: 1 is intel HD graphics and it's integrated and 2 is ATI Radeon 7670m it's discrete. So the question is how i can install them and can play games like Final Fantasy arr?

Wolfman

Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:29:01 am

Hi,

first you need to check to see if there are additional drivers available, for Zorin 7 > Synaptic > Settings > Repositories > Software & Updates > Addtional Drivers.

For Zorin 6 > System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers.

You must update your system fully after installing any drivers!.

Regards Wolfman

Ferreol

Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:17:59 am

Well ok, btw what version of wine integrated in OS7 ? And what do u mean update system after install all drivers?

Swarfendor437

Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:59:01 am

I think Zorin 7 uses 1.4, or possibly 1.5 - if you have 'ultimate' it will be present - not sure if it is present in core.
There should be an 'about' wine link somewhere which should tell you the version.

What Wolfman meant was that after you install the drivers, update the system:

Code:: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Ferreol

Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:40:30 pm

OK, well i always can update wine from repository to current version. But what about hybrid drivers? I have an intel HD and ATI Radeon 7670m...So what about their working?

Wolfman

Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:43:10 am

Wolfman wrote:Hi,

first you need to check to see if there are additional drivers available, for Zorin 7 > Synaptic > Settings > Repositories > Software & Updates > Addtional Drivers.

For Zorin 6 > System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers.

You must update your system fully after installing any drivers!.

Regards Wolfman

PLease read the above, it tells you where to look for the drivers!.

Regards Wolfman

Ferreol

Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:49:19 am

Ok, i will. And I have a question about OS, can i update wine version to current by adding it in to repository?

madvinegar

Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:02:08 am

Yes you can.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

(or 1.6 or 1.5).

Ferreol

Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:30:04 am

Thanks. Well i'll try about drivers. As i understand gamer edition is adapted for windows games personally? And what differences between Ultimate Gamer and Free editions?

Swarfendor437

Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:09:17 pm

Just to say that I would not advise attempting to upgrade to wine 1.7 in Zorin 6 - I tried that and lost my Zorin DE!

Ferreol

Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:38:19 pm

I installed zorin 7 and think about buying zorin 7 ultimate

madvinegar

Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:36:30 pm

See a helpful link here:

http://xpressrazor.wordpress.com/2013/0 ... ux-ubuntu/

Ferreol

Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:32:29 am

Ok, i'll try it

Ferreol

Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:39:18 pm

Thanks to all of u, right now i have an ATI drivers working perfectly

Swarfendor437

Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:36:57 pm

Before you spend your hard earned pennies on Ultimate 7 - bear in mind support for this ends in January 2014 in line with Ubuntu 13.04 on which it is based - wait for Zorin 8 to come out!

Glad you are now sorted by the way - will mark as [SOLVED] and another 60 blue jewels to madvinegar!

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[SOLVED] About hybrid video cards on a laptops