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Wine sees Radeon HD 5700 as nVidia 7900 or not at all

Asked by temnix

I've already posted this on Wine HQ, too.

I have a laptop with hybrid graphics: Intel chip (used by default) and HD 5700. Ubuntu detects both, but the chipset is the one active. My questions: 1) do games switch between the cards automatically? 2) how do I switch from within Ubuntu manually? 3) what to edit and enter in xorg.conf, if anything? I don't want to screw up the system. 4) is there a UI for changing resolution and tweaking acceleration options?

The situation with Wine is that (talking now about Bethesda games) the Options of Oblivion and Fallout 3 do see my chipset, which is the active card, but the games are not playable with it. I've downloaded a Control-Center-something-or-other applet that seemed to force-switch me to the Radeon, but then the Options saw nVidia 7900 instead. The applet is gone now, somehow. Help?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Add the wine ppa and install wine 1.3 which may help. Also try playonlinux which may add extra options which may help things

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temnix (droaam) said : 		#2

Playonlinux is too complicated and I don't see how it will help, and the repository is listed already.

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#3

Now, I don't have two chipsets, so I'm not a hundred percent sure on this, but as far as I know you can only use one chipset at a time for now in Ubuntu/Linux and Wine will always use the one in use by the system.

If you want to use your Radeon HD 5700 with Wine, you need to change to it in your BIOS and then start Ubuntu as normally.

Switching chipsets is something that is being worked on.

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temnix (droaam) said : 		#4

No such option in Bios.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Can you give the output of:
sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#6

Maybe this page can offer som help?
http://ernolf.blogdns.net/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=4

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