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wellsaid

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Registered: 2016-04-13

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[SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

Hi,
i've recently bought an asus N552VX-FW131T which has a Nvidia GeForce 950m, i have installed the intel and nvidia drivers (the proprietary one).
Unfortunately when i start the bumbleeed service the fan of my laptop go very loud, i don't know why. It happens even if i don't have any program running through the Nvidia.

I have no idea how to investigate on this issue, can you guys put me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by wellsaid (2017-04-17 07:49:21)

wellsaid

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Registered: 2016-04-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

Ok i have an update on the situation,
By blacklisting nouveau:

echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

And starting the bumbleeed service now everything works, but i still have fan going very fast.

There are still two problems:
1. bumblebee cannot be started at boot, otherwise boot process stucks at loading lightdm
2. If i start it manually after boot it works, but if i kill it and restart it from that moment on when a request comes the daemon (launched with --debug) get stucked here:

[  244.530939] [DEBUG]bbswitch has been detected.
[  244.530984] [INFO]Switching method 'bbswitch' is available and will be used.
[  244.530992] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[  244.530997] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  244.531004] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[  244.531009] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia:/usr/lib:/usr/lib32
[  244.531015] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[  244.531020] [DEBUG] xorg.conf file: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
[  244.531026] [DEBUG] xorg.conf.d dir: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d
[  244.531034] [DEBUG] ModulePath: /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
[  244.531040] [DEBUG] GID name: bumblebee
[  244.531056] [DEBUG] Power method: auto
[  244.531075] [DEBUG] Stop X on exit: 1
[  244.531086] [DEBUG] Driver: nvidia
[  244.531097] [DEBUG] Driver module: nvidia
[  244.531109] [DEBUG] Card shutdown state: 1
[  244.531281] [DEBUG]Process /sbin/modprobe started, PID 1616.
[  244.531396] [DEBUG]Hiding stderr for execution of /sbin/modprobe
[  244.533293] [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes
[  244.533346] [DEBUG]Configuration test passed.
[  244.534544] [INFO]bumblebeed 3.2.1 started
[  244.582817] [INFO]Initialization completed - now handling client requests
[  256.674561] [DEBUG]Accepted new connection
[  256.723117] [INFO]Switching dedicated card ON [bbswitch]

And becomes impossible to kill (which also causes the system to cannot be shut off).

Last edited by wellsaid (2017-04-15 09:36:52)

wellsaid

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

UPDATE:
After a clean install I finally find to component which causes the issue: bbswitch!!
For the moment i simply uninstalled it, i will loose some battery life but at least now it's working.
Even if sometimes the GPU don't start for a PCI error, maybe my GPU (Nvidia Geforce 950M) is not iet well supported by linux

olegabrielz

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Registered: 2015-12-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

..., maybe my GPU (Nvidia Geforce 950M) is not iet well supported by linux

I don't think that is the case. I have GTX950M on my Lenovo IdeaPad 700 set up with bumblebee. Pushing the GPU hard with Steam (Dirt Rally) from time to time, and everything works just perfect. And no boot issues related to the GPU for the almost 6 months I've had it.

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md1flynn

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Registered: 2016-12-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

Your issues are probably related to:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#Lockup_issue_.28lspci_hangs.29

try adding

acpi_osi="!Windows 2015"

or

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009

to your kernel parameters or check out the link on the wiki page for some more to try.

wellsaid

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Registered: 2016-04-13

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

Your issues are probably related to:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#Lockup_issue_.28lspci_hangs.29

try adding

acpi_osi="!Windows 2015"

or

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009

to your kernel parameters or check out the link on the wiki page for some more to try.

Thank you, that seems to have solved all my problems

I have added

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009

to my kernel parameters and now the nvidia gpu works fine, both on battery and on AC.
And even bbswitch seems to work fine now

wellsaid

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Registered: 2016-04-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

This problem has returned
Same hardware, i had to reinstall arch to change the encryption mechanism. This time bbswitch at boot causes gdm to never load and get stuck on black screen.

Obviously i used the same kernel options. No idea what to do.

mcku

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From: Istanbul

Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Asus N552VX-FW131T starting bumblebeed causes fan to go loud

Try disabling bumblebeed.service and running it manually after gdm starts, and after logging into the desktop environment.