[PATCH] modesetting: fail PreInit() if the device has zero connectors

[Dave Airlie]

On 21 October 2017 at 03:08,  <tobias.jakobi1 at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> On laptop systems with a dedicated (powerful) GPU A, you usually
> have all connectors routed to another (less-powerful) GPU B.
>
> With my setup (GPU A = Nvidia, GPU B = Intel) I keep GPU A switched
> off by not loading the nouveau kernel driver during boot.

You do understand that won't keep the nvidia turned off, unless you
are using bumblebee or something.

Loading nouveau will actually power the gpu down properly.

Dave.