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peltco
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:13 pm Post subject: VGA switcheroo howto |
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for those with laptops both both a ati and an intel card i put toget a howto to make switching easy(er). should work with nvidia/intel combinations too with little change.
if anyone has any other tips/feedback let me know and i'll include it.
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Vga_switcheroo |
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corphi
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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I needed to explicitly
| Code: | | # mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug |
/etc/fstab helped:
| Code: | | debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 |
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Goeland86
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Location: Geneva area
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I don't know if it's my connection, of gentoo-wiki is down. Could I ask you to make the howto available somewhere else? I've got a laptop with two ATI cards (one IGP one discrete), and would really like to find a way to select the proper VGA card when I need it. (Using the radeon driver atm, fglrx doesn't support the PowerXpress settings afaik.
Thanks,
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tclover
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deleted on May 30, 2011, at 00:30.
Last edited by tclover on Sun May 29, 2011 10:32 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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kkspeed
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:01 am Post subject: Recently changes in kernel |
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Recently, in kernel 2.6.38, the contents in /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitheroo/switch has changed.
Now it is sth like:
0:DIS: :Off:0000:01:00.0
1:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
so in the /etc/hprofile/profiles/graphics/ptest, you may need to change sth or you'll always get "invalid"  .
I changed it like this:
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#!/bin/bash
# This script should echo the name of the profile that should be used (only).
#check if we have switchable graphics
if [ ! -f /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch ] ; then
echo "radeon"
exit 0
fi
if [ `uname -r | grep 2.6.38` ] ; then
if [ `grep "DIS:+" /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch` ] ; then
echo "radeon"
exit 0
fi
if [ `grep "IGD:+" /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch` ] ; then
echo "intel"
exit 0
fi
else
if [ `grep "0:+" /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch` ] ; then
echo "radeon"
exit 0
fi
if [ `grep "1:+" /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch` ] ; then
echo "intel"
exit 0
fi
fi
echo "invalid"
exit 1
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tclover
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Thanks kkspeed. I will make the necessary changes. Since I updated to kernel 2.6.38 I don't remember to have run my image to my laptop yet. I'm actually trying to figure out how to make a squashed /lib64 to get rid of definitely of the disk i/o bottleneck.
See this thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-646289.html for info. Well, I still have to fix splash for kernel 2.6.38, but that's not important. And then I'll update my image and extract it to my notebook disk. |
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Blue-Sick
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| As someone tried ( is it even possible ? ) to run switcheroo with the closed amd drivers ( ati-drivers) and an intel igp? |
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