Description of problem: I'm noticing that the grafic activity (the fan runs at a high rate) on the desktop of Mageia2 is quite high. The notebook has two graphics (Intel i3 HD and Nvidia GT 525m). It is supposed to be working with Intel (at least to set the graphical server, this is the option to set out). 3D desktop effects are disabled. And desktop effects are turned on, but turning them off makes no difference in fan speed. Under windows 7 on the desktop with intel graphics, fan has a very low noise. /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd1,5)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title MAGEIA 2 X64 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=MAGEIA_2_X64 root=UUID=2c67d050-fc3c-4ce0-b270-f2c1dd7e6751 splash quiet resume=UUID=a160b742-53bb-4be1-894f-a6b914cb028c xdriver=intel vga=788 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=2c67d050-fc3c-4ce0-b270-f2c1dd7e6751 resume=UUID=a160b742-53bb-4be1-894f-a6b914cb028c initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=2c67d050-fc3c-4ce0-b270-f2c1dd7e6751 failsafe initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd.img title WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE X64 root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Notebook (in my case Dell XPS15) with intel i3 or i5 grafic. LiveCD x86_64 instalation No 3D desktop effects desktop in idle= medium fan noise with no grafic activity suposed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
well, what said top or ps ?
Component: Security => RPM Packages
I've notice that every time I boot my laptop (DEL XPS15) the graphical boot thing comes up for a little bit and then the screen goes black and shows this error: drm:intel_dsm_platform_mux_info: *error* mux info call failed drm:intel_dsm_platform_mux_info: *error* mux info call failed It seems to be relacionated with the hight grafic activity of the intel (i3) graffic card on Mageia2 desktop.
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2
ps information: 4838 pts/1 00:00:00 su 5234 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 5896 pts/1 00:00:00 ps top information: top - 11:44:07 up 12 min, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.37, 0.36 Tasks: 186 total, 2 running, 184 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.6%us, 2.3%sy, 0.1%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3944784k total, 1954884k used, 1989900k free, 31028k buffers Swap: 4088504k total, 0k used, 4088504k free, 988268k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 856 root 20 0 161m 40m 26m S 5 1.1 0:47.29 X 4809 david 20 0 542m 47m 22m S 2 1.2 0:15.99 konsole 2917 david 20 0 814m 76m 38m S 1 2.0 0:17.94 kwin 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0 0.0 0:00.90 kworker/0:1 2746 david 20 0 13872 1324 1092 S 0 0.0 0:00.40 gam_server 3431 david 20 0 318m 48m 14m S 0 1.2 0:00.86 mgaapplet 3436 david 20 0 256m 46m 13m S 0 1.2 0:02.47 net_applet 5906 root 20 0 11044 1252 884 R 0 0.0 0:01.21 top 1 root 20 0 46652 4920 2064 S 0 0.1 0:00.56 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/2 13 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/3 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/3 16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 17 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 22 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd 23 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 25 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 md 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 28 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd
is it an optimus nvidia chipset ( with both nvidia and intel ). In this case, the nvidia graphical is by default in performance mode ( but not in use ) into mageia. The solution is to install something like bumblebee and use bbswitch => https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch to turn off the card. Can you confirm if it works after ? thx hurdman.
CC: (none) => yves
package are into cauldron
Thanks Yves, I've solved the problem using "bbswitch" and some "git" orders to turn off the nvidia card. -I've bbswitch charged into the kernel. - and "git" installed. As root: 1- modprobe bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=1 2- cd acpi_call 3- make 4- insmod acpi_call.ko 5- chmod +x test_off.sh 6- ./test_off.sh 7- echo '\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF' > /proc/acpi/call "cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch" will confirm that nvidia card is OFF "tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<<OFF" can turn off nvidia card too if no nvidia driver or nouveau it's charged.
tmb, is there something that can be done to solve this optimus chipset problem by default?
CC: (none) => stormi, tmb
Not really for mga2/3 :/ For mga4 with kernel >= 3.12 there will be gpu pm runtime management in kernel that will allow to automatically power down gpu not in use.
If you don't mind I'm setting version to cauldron and assigning to you then. To the bug reporter: see comment #8. Only way to try and fix your problem in default kernel is to wait for Mageia 4.
Keywords: (none) => Triaged, UPSTREAMVersion: 2 => CauldronAssignee: bugsquad => tmbTarget Milestone: Mageia 2 => ---Source RPM: (none) => kernel
AFAICT power management works out of the box for Optimus laptops since Mageia 4.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => remiResolution: (none) => OLD