On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:35:35PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:39:14PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
Hi guys,
I recently got the rMBP 10,1 model, it has two graphic cards:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1)
I'm running linux 3.10-rc7 . The nvidia works with nouveau, but I'd prefer to switch the nvidia off altogether and use the intel GPU.
So far I arrived at the point where I disabled X11, mounted debugfs and tried the vgaswitcheroo. With the nvidia still in operation, I see the console. Unfortunatelly, I end up with a black screen after I run the following command to switch to the intel GPU:
echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
If I try to switch back to the nvidia card (using echo DIS > ...), the screen remains black. This state persists until reboot. I suspect [1] is the same bug, none of the hints there helped.
It is not that bug. This bug I believe is that no one has figured out how to reprobe the eDP and initialise it after a vgaswitch.
Do we have any kind of hints into what direction I should dig ? I mean, I went through the i915 source, went through David Airlies' patches [1] , but no success so far.
(User-unfriendly howto below, I hope this might help someone)
The interesting part is that if I do the following, the intel card operates correctly:
- power down the mac
- boot into OSX
- install gfxcardstatus 2.2.1
- select Discrete first ; then select Integrated card (a popup must be
displayed in both cases in the top right corner indicating the operation succeeded) 5) reboot, start Linux
Now in Linux, I do have nouveau blacklisted and the nvidia blob is NOT installed at all. I
- modprobe nouveau
- mount -t debugfs debug /sys/kernel/debug
- echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
And I have 16W power consumption, therefore the intel card is in operation and nvidia is probably off. The laptop is still a little hot in linux, but that's OK.
Yet I'd prefer to avoid the above booting into macos and do all this in Linux. If you could give me any pointers, that'd be really appreciated.
I think you should also be able to accomplish the same if you were to reload the i915 module after doing the vgaswitch.
A starting point for patches would be for a notifier to run after vgaswitch, and for i915 to hook into that notification and reprobe panels (LVDS/eDP). -Chris