I am having some serious issues with the Switchable graphics setup on my HP Envy 1103-tx Laptop.
This laptop comes with:
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- AMD Radeon HD 7670M
The ATI card is getting really hot making the laptop uncomfortable for use.
To fix the issues I have tried a few things but they didn't really complete:
Setting Power Profiles using
echo "low" > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_method
which failed with anInvalid argument
error. No additional kernel parameter set.Turning Off the card using
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
which did nothing at first and after addingradeon.dpm=0
to the kernel parameters the command lead to a crash with black screen and error log which got fixed after a hardware reboot.
System information:
[root@MISTRI ashesh] $ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 19:54:31 UTC 2015
Device information:
[ashesh@MISTRI ~] $ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] (rev ff)
Switchable graphics information:
[ashesh@MISTRI ~] $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
[sudo] password for ashesh:
0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0
1:DIS: :DynOff:0000:01:00.0
Any help is greatly appreciated; I really want to solve this.
PS: I am not in favor of installing 3rd proprietary drivers.