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Feedback on the Dell Vostro 3445 - Janus 14 AMD

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The configuration I have is an AMD A8 6410 APU, R5 M230 512 MB + Radeon HD 8570M 2GB

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John Jacob (john4good) said : 		#1

Had a MSI laptop i5 based with dual graphics card (Intel+ATI) which was a headache when running Ubuntu. Will this dell dual gpu present problems, which one will be used by ubuntu?

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) said : 		#2

Hi there,
For your MSI laptop, you might need to install the proprietary AMD graphic driver for it, which could be installed by using the "Additional Driver" tool in your system settings, or you can download the latest driver here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
For your Dell, you can try it with live USB, and you can tell which GPU is being used by this command: /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -c -p
I guess it might use the APU by default.
Cheers.

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