Laptop is getting hot after resume from suspend
Christian Menzel
christian.menzel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 09:21:52 UTC 2012
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:02:09PM +0100, Christian Menzel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while my Thinpad X220 normally shows 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, when
> > running on normal load, it gets hot to 90 to 96 degrees Celsius after
> > resume from suspend, although top does not show any CPU eating processes.
> > I think I experience this behavior since switching to kernel 3.6.x.
> >
> > Does this happen on other machines too? Is there a cure for it?
>
> You're probably seeing this bug, where the GPU gets stuck in power-on
> mode:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866212
>
> I've found that if you add 'i915.i915_enable_rc6=7' to your boot line,
> it will work around the bug about 60-70% of the time. When it
> doesn't, suspending and resuming again (i.e. closing lid for a few
> seconds and reopening) usually makes the workaround take hold.
>
Hi Paul,
yes that sounds exactly like the issue I'm experiencing, thanks for the
workaround, I'll try it out.
Regards
Chris
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