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[Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Orion <orion2000za@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As can be seen in subject, my query if anyone has found a working method to
> switch ON discreet graphics and OFF integrated.
>
> My hardware is a HP Pavilion dm4-1050 with the least usable BIOS I have ever
> seen. One upgrade actually broke the possibility in both Win7 (have kept a
> partition) and Linux to switch wireless on/off. Only good thing is that it
> allows downgrading bios so I got that functionality back.
>
> OS: Kubuntu 10.10 32-bit with all upgrades
> Model details:
> HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook PC
> 048E100000242B10000020000
>
> Graphics Details:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor
> Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
> [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:68e0] (rev ff) (prog-if ff
>
> using vga-switcheroo I can switch OFF discreet graphics and run on
> integrated only or switch ON both and get a hot, batterychewing computer.
> Vga-switcheroo can not switch over to discreet only, I get this from dmesg:
> [ 6514.974672] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS=0x00003828
> [ 6514.974676] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000007
> [ 6514.974680] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0x00000007
> [ 6514.974684] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   SRBM_STATUS=0x200000C0
> [ 6514.975044] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_SOFT_RESET=0x00007F6B
> [ 6514.975150] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS=0x00003828
> [ 6514.975154] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000007
> [ 6514.975158] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0x00000007
> [ 6514.975162] radeon 0000:01:00.0:   SRBM_STATUS=0x200000C0
> [ 6514.979764] [drm] Clocks initialized !
> [ 6515.020519] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
> [ 6515.020545] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
> [ 6515.021186] vga_switcheroo: client 1 refused switch
> [ 6515.021188] vga_switcheroo: setting delayed switch to client 1
>
> and that is it. I tried to compile the module and run the test.off script.
> Managed to compile but the kernel I was in went nonresponsive completely on
> running the script. Lucky I have several generations so managed to sort that
> problem.

Did you log out of X after this point?

Dave.