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From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:43:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS
To: Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Roland Singer
<roland.singer@desertbit.com> wrote:
> My conclusion:
>
> 1. Nouveau has couple of problems with GTX 9** M Nvidia GPUs.
>    I would love to help here.

nouveau + bbswitch will always end in tears. You're going behind the
driver's back and messing around with state it believes it is
managing. What if you just use nouveau and let it auto-power-off the
GPU like it's designed to, with v4.8-rc?

  -ilia