Comment # 13
on bug 67107
from Adam Honse
To follow up with my previous comment, I tried disabling the discrete GPU. In my case I disable it AFTER the radeon module is loaded (because doing it the other way around causes errors that lag the machine to an unusable state). The machine has no means of disabling it in the BIOS so I use the acpi_call kernel module with the turn_off_gpu script from here: https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call/ What I did was start the laptop with dpm=1 and gdm set to not start automatically so I'd boot to a text console. Radeon module loads at boot and KMS sets the console to the appropriate resolution. Then I insmod the acpi_call.ko and run the turn-off-gpu script which turns off the discrete GPU. Then I started gdm, logged in, and ran glxgears to confirm that the integrated GPU was working (ran fine) and looked at Xorg.0.log to confirm radeon.dpm=1 (it did). This was on battery power, haven't tested plugged in. I'm downloading Open Arena now to see if gaming performance is improved. Using xrandr --listproviders confirms that only one GPU is active and available which is the integrated one.
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