my pc has a amd radeon r5 gpu along with a intel one (cant remeber details for the intell one), windows 10 recognizes it. but sadly zorin does not. i intend to make zorin my daily driver, so i want it to use my amd gpu. any suggestions to switch my gpu in zorin? i tried installing the offical amd driver's deb files, but nothing has changed.
FYI i'm still a linux noob, and need more detail instructions.
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Depending on Your BIOS, You should be able to set that up there.
i did go in bios and selected radeon as primary instead of intel but it just switched the placement in about
And did You disabled the iGPU (the Intel Graphics)?
i looked into disabling the igpu and the only option was trying turning off multi-displays but since it didnt change anything i put it back on. i did read somewhere that if you set the gpu setting to auto that the igpu would get disabled automatically so i tried it. now zorin only has one gpu in the about section.
not sure why it still says oland instead of amd but i guess we're getting somewhere?
Please type in the Terminal the command sudo lshw -C video and post the Output here. This Command shows the Hardware for Video Stuff - including Graphics Card. OLAND could be the used built-in Driver for Your Card.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R5 430 OEM / R7 240/340 / Radeon 520 OEM]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 87
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1920,1080
resources: irq:131 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7000000-f703ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: HD Graphics 530
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:130 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
btw i ended up switching from auto bc zorin kept freezing on me. i guess using both graphics cards is the better option for now.
So, Oland seems to stand for the Graphics Card or the used Driver for it. Then it should be in Usage.
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ok thanks, guess i can stop going insane over it
my last question is what does the description mean? vga / display controller. is that the cable i have to use for my monitor?
VGA is a Graphics Standard. And the ''Display Controller'' says that is is for Display Output. These are only common Descriptions.
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