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D-Bus service to check the availability of dual-GPU
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Force turn off discrete GPU on startup #1

Closed hadess closed 5 years ago

hadess commented 8 years ago

From http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/149144

GD and DIGD switch to the integrated GPU and also turn off the discrete
GPU. However if the machine is already switched to the integrated GPU,
the commands are no-ops and the discrete GPU is not turned off.

In other words you need to check (by reading the switch file) which GPU
the machine is switched to. If it's the integrated GPU, write OFF to the
switch file. If it's the discrete GPU, write DIGD to the switch file.

Once runtime pm works, writing DIGD is sufficient.
Firstyear commented 6 years ago

I think this is affecting me as I have a MBP 8,2, and efi set to use IGD by default.

switcheroo-control does "nothing" for me, because of this issue, I have to still manually disable the discreet card.

hadess commented 5 years ago

This should really be done by the firmware (BIOS/UEFI/other), or in the worst case by the kernel, not by a helper.