From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: bugzilla-daemon-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Bug 86503] New: Discrete card seems to be powered on
even if reported as Off
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:01:09 +0000
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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.