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[Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Orion <orion2000za@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 22:09, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I wish I could - my computer refuses to logout. It is reboot or shutdown. Am
> thinking I may have tinkered something "once too many" and am contemplating
> reinstall. But at this moment productivity has to come first so have to wait

Well it won't switch until  X exits, worth trying sudo killall Xorg.

Dave.