Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS

[Roland Singer]

I configured bbswitch to not set any states automatically...
So it's possible to obtain and verify the GPU power state.

However I removed the bbswitch module and booted with nouveau.

Kernel 4.7.2: nouveau switches the discrete GPU off.
              I can't trigger the freeze, because bbswitch is missing.
              I'll work with the system and see if it will freeze.

Kernel 4.8-rc4: nouveau does not care about the power state and
                the discrete GPU is never switched off. I will notice
                this, because the second cooling FAN will stop...
                Same log messages as send before.


Am 30.08.2016 um 19:43 schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Roland Singer
> <roland.singer at desertbit.com> wrote:
>> My conclusion:
>>
>> 1. Nouveau has couple of problems with GTX 9** M Nvidia GPUs.
>>    I would love to help here.
> 
> nouveau + bbswitch will always end in tears. You're going behind the
> driver's back and messing around with state it believes it is
> managing. What if you just use nouveau and let it auto-power-off the
> GPU like it's designed to, with v4.8-rc?
> 
>   -ilia
>