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Old 08-11-2020, 08:29 AM   #1
replikvlt
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Turning off 1 out of 2 Radeon GPUs on Crossfire enabled HP Pavilion g6 2239-sr


Hello, I've read somewhere about that discrete GPU can be turned off in software in GNU/Linux.
I think the solution involved blacklisting nvidia graphics card driver, so that the device used the Intel integrated GPU.
Though admittedly i don't know if truly not loading driver disables hardware component, so please, don't limit yourselves to just providing a blacklisting driver solution in my case.
Perhaps there are better solutions?
However my laptop has 2 GPUs both from Radeon, but different architectures.
Is it possible to turn off my discrete GPU in order to reduce power usage and perhaps prolong battery life?

output for "xrandr --listproviders"
Code:
xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x8c cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:ARUBA @ pci:0000:00:01.0
Provider 1: id: 0x55 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 6 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:TURKS @ pci:0000:01:00.0
P.S. I can switch between my GPUs using the DRI_PRIME variable
 
Old 08-12-2020, 11:19 AM   #2
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Maybe this will work: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2/#post5408917
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post4830372

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Old 08-15-2020, 08:36 AM   #3
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Thank you, this is just what I needed!
 
Old 08-15-2020, 09:30 AM   #4
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