Bug ID 86503
Summary Discrete card seems to be powered on even if reported as Off
Product xorg
Version unspecified
Hardware Other
OS All
Status NEW
Severity normal
Priority medium
Component Driver/nouveau
Assignee nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter mszpak@wp.pl
QA Contact xorg-team@lists.x.org

Following up Bug 70895.

On Fedora 21 with 3.17.3-300.fc21.x86_64 when booting with nouveau.runpm=0 I
have both cards on:
$ $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
1:DIS: :Pwr:0000:01:00.0

and after:
# echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

I have:
0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
1:DIS: :Off:0000:01:00.0

Looks ok, but I still see 3 providers:
$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 3
Provider 0: id: 0x90 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs:
3 outputs: 5 associated providers: 2 name:Intel
Provider 1: id: 0x63 cap: 0x7, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload
crtcs: 2 outputs: 2 associated providers: 2 name:nouveau
Provider 2: id: 0x63 cap: 0x7, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload
crtcs: 2 outputs: 2 associated providers: 2 name:nouveau

and system temperature could suggest that the card is still on.

When I use (on the second kernel) bbswitch with bumblebee I see only one
provider and the temperature is a few (~6) degrees lower.

I see no messages from VGA switcheroo in the system log (as there were in
3.11.6). Can I make output more verbose or do something else to provide more
details about the situation?


System specification:
Asus N43SN
GeForce GT 550M + integrated Intel card using i915 driver (NVidia Optimus)
kernel-3.17.3-300.fc21.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.11-1.fc21.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.1-1.fc21.x86_64

Btw, on that system there is also problem with auto-suspending (with not
disabled nouveau.runpm) - a card is always in DynPwr - Bug 70875.


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