tfw your laptop needs an uninterruptible power source... ... because of the Thunderbolt eGPU you have plugged into it i have not expected this.
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Linux handles eGPU hot-unplug just fine--it never crashed or glitched--but the Xorg instance using it and whatever was using it is now hung forever, which is... not optimal
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to be fair to Linux, I believe the kernel interface *does* allow handling this, the proprietary nVidia driver doesn't seem to have any way to handle hot-unplug-while-in-use as it gets stuck in some lock… not that I complain, normal hot-unplug is hard enough and that works well
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Yeeeah.. PCIe hotplugging works for some devices (e.g. ExpressCard USB and FireWire cards), but good luck getting Nvidia's giant turd of a kernel driver to cooperate with that.
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If your BIOS has reserved memory ranges and PCI bus numbers for it! Booting with the device plugged in helps but otherwise you’re at the mercy of the BIOS devs
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nope, this laptop doesn't even *start* POST with *any* card plugged into Thunderbolt. just blinks some weird morse sequence via power LED.
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Ouch. I thought my laptop was bad because I get no BIOS video output whatsoever with three external monitors connected (DVI+HDMI+DP) until the Linux driver loads.
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