From: Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com>
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ML dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>,
peter@lekensteyn.nl
Subject: Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:51:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58415a73-5405-531e-ccd0-a413b7a8eb63@desertbit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACvgo51OodZGqnrBCusXGycdibR8PY4wBfUZOjEhQ=1TyPenrg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 30.08.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Emil Velikov:
> I second Ilia here. Using bbswitch in conjunction with any driver (be
> that nouveau or the proprietary one) is a bad idea.
>
I removed bbswitch from my system and will use vgaswitcheroo to check
the GPU power state from now.
> (If Ilia's suggestions does not help) Confirm if the freeze is due
> to/as the GPU is powered on or off.
>
Yeah, the freeze is caused by the switched off GPU.
Waited for the nouveau driver to switch it off, before starting
the graphical user interface...
> Out of curiosity: how did you force X to ignore the device ?
>
I tried to tell X11 to ignore the device with the following
configuration:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
> You can check if it's the boot_vga assumption with
> cat /sys/class/drm/card*/device/{boot_vga,vendor}
> If the output changes them my assumption holds true.
Output did not change:
1
0x8086
0x8086 is the vendor ID of intel. So that's ok...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2016-08-29 16:02 ` Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-29 18:46 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-29 19:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-29 19:55 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-29 23:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-30 10:08 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 13:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-30 14:08 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 15:25 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 15:44 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 15:48 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 15:48 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 17:37 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 17:43 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 18:02 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 18:13 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 19:21 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 11:12 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 11:11 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 18:09 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 18:10 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-31 10:51 ` Roland Singer [this message]
2016-08-30 19:53 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 11:27 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 11:46 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 12:21 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 12:34 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 13:13 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 20:06 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 20:16 ` Roland Singer
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