Discrete Graphics not working

[Maraschin]

I've got a HP Envy 17 which has two video cards, an Intel card and an ATI card.
Ubuntu identifies the ATI and ask if I would like to install the proprietary drivers, event installing it the ATI card will not work since I do not have an easy way to switch between the cards ... and or disable to Intel card (which is fine most of the times, but not when running on battery!)
Is there anyway to be able to switch between the two?

As well there are side effects intalling the ATI proprietary driver:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/860865

lspci
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Broadway [ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6800 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]

Hardware specification:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/se/sv/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329744-3995710-3995710-5046243-5095801.html?jumpid=oc_r1002_sesv&lang=sv&cc=se

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Liny (liny)]

I can turn the discrete card off by procfs. However, I couldn't find a way to make it work on the Discrete card.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command in a terminal after reproducing the issue, and it it will automatically gather debugging information needed for this bug:

  apport-collect 860892

I believe the issue with apport recommending installation of proprietary drivers has been solved in oneiric. Can you confirm whether the "Hardware Drivers" applet is still recommending installation of fglrx after you've updated to the final oneiric release? If it is, that'd be a problem we should investigate.

No, there is no method supported in Ubuntu for switching between the two (nor any near-term plans to support switching).

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Maraschin (carlo-maraschin)]

Hi, I don't think you should close this bug (problem)!

First of all I don't think you have even read the problem, if you read you will know that what Bryce wrote first makes no sense with the problem/bug in question!
About installing proprietary driver or not, I don't think this is an issue, In my case I do have an ATI and I think it would be a lot better to use the proprietary driver, if it worked... but it does not and it may be because the second card still enabled.

Later he adds:
"No, there is no method supported in Ubuntu for switching between the two (nor any near-term plans to support switching)."

So, It seems NO ONE will/want to fix this... So the PROBLEM STILL THERE!
It is just that no one is planning to do anything about it!

The problem is in ALL new notebooks and computers that have a discrete video card and a more advanced video card in it.
Ubuntu has no decent way to support this, we may have some work around but they are dirty!

And than there are all the related side effects like:
- battery consumption (it could be a lot less if I could switch between the two video cards)
- problems with video drivers, I can't get the ATI to work!