Description of problem: System freeze on restarting X after GPU switch through vgaswitchero Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.6.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc18.i686 How reproducible: Switch GPU through vgaswitchero Steps to Reproduce: 1.Exec thutee command 'echo "DDIS" > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitchero/switch' 2.Log out of GNOME3(or just reststart X) Actual results: System freeze Expected results: GDM log in screen to be presented Additional info: If one does not log out of the desktop but instead switch to vt and stop the gdm.service, before system freeze the following lines could be observed: vga_switchero: client 1 refused switch vga_switchero: processing delayed switch to 1 [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0 no native mode, forcing panel scaling smolt page: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_9b21bbe1-62dd-4153-86ec-0881bad10182
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. Does gnome-shell function normally without executing the command in step 1 from the description? What exactly is that command supposed to do? Can someone provide more information on what the effects of this bug are and either list the F18 release criterion (alpha, beta or final; listed below) that is violated by this bug or at least provide a justification on why this bug should block the release of F18? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Alpha_Release_Criteria http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria
Hi, Tim The vgaswitchero is functionality for laptops with hybrid graphics, that's having GPU on same chip with the CPU(Intel Core i3 in my case) and another discrete GPU(Nvidia optimus in my case). The command 'echo "DDIS" > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitchero/switch' is supposed to activate the discrete GPU and deactivate the embedded one, hence eventually having better graphics performance but consuming more power. On the F18Blocker stuff - vgaswitcheroo never worked on my laptop, and honestly I didn't expect it to work in the near future. Don't know how the bug is marked as blocker but if you think it's alright me to change it's blocker status, and as I sad I don't consider it as blocker cause I don't expect it to work, I will. Thanks
Based on comment #2 and the fact that it seems it's not even officially supported method and not enabled by default (I don't see the the vgaswitchero debug interface on my NVidia Optimus system booted with default options), I'm -1 blocker.
Discussed at 2012-12-03 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-12-03/f18final-blocker-review-1.2.2012-12-03-17.25.log.txt . Rejected as a blocker - switcheroo functionality is still experimental and unsupported and certainly doesn't constitute release-blocking functionality.
Are you able to reproduce it on latest Fedora 18 or 19?
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