Re: Laptop Working Group Github Issue Request - Multi-GPU Support

Luke Wolf wrote:
> this would seem to indicate
> https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ii0da4/wayland_on_freebsd_142r_tldr/
> that Intel + Nvidia encounters the same issue.
> 
> However both of these would indicate that in the case of Nvidia cards
> that Wayland actually works, but X11 still needs configuration, unlike
> the Framework 16's AMD + AMD situation where X11 needs configuration
> and Wayland doesn't work.
> 
> Given the log complaint about:
> VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support.
> 
> My assumption is that this is what we're missing in order for it to
> work:
> https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/vgaarbiter.html
> https://www.x.org/wiki/VgaArbiter/
> 
For nvidia on laptops specifically, if it's an Optimus setup, the 
arbiter is irrelevant. A "proper" Optimus setup has the nvidia card 
completely headless, where some other mechanism copies the rendered 
output to the internal/integrated GPU framebuffer which has physical 
outputs.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.