Support for Mobility Radeon HD 56xx?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Andreas Demmer <mail at andreas-demmer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I own a Laptop with switchable graphics (HP Envy 14) that cannot be
> deactivated in BIOS.
>
> Builtin adapter is Intel Arrandale, discrete adapter is ATI Mobility Radeon HD
> 5650. Since I cannot deactive switchable graphics, I am stuck with the Intel
> adapter because the proprietary ATI driver does not support switchable
> graphics.
>
> Unfortunally, the free radeon driver does not yet support the HD 56xx cards.
> Are there any plans (maybe even code?) to integrate this chipset into the free
> radeon driver?

It already supports evergreen chips.  Make sure you are using 2.6.34
with kms enabled and xf86-video-ati
 6.13.0 or newer.

Alex