Bug 1006890 - nouveau is not being loaded and it's making my notebook really hot
Summary: nouveau is not being loaded and it's making my notebook really hot
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-11 13:02 UTC by Marcel Ribeiro Dantas
Modified: 2015-02-17 17:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 17:08:56 UTC
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Description Marcel Ribeiro Dantas 2013-09-11 13:02:09 UTC
Description of problem:
My computer has been getting really hot (75-85 Celsius), and it's usually related to my graphics card, which are:

* Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
* NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]

Sometimes, I check with lsmod and nouveau module is not up. I forced to load it with modprobe nouveau now through a rc.local file, and during boot (and later checking with dmesg), I see:

[   31.162194] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
[   31.162947] nouveau ![  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown Kepler chipset
[   31.163895] nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset, 0xffffffff
[   31.164872] nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22
[   31.166090] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22
[   31.228916] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

PS: I'm loading (with modprobe) the radeon module too, since when I first tried it (a few weeks ago) I noticed both nouveau and radeon modules loaded at the same time made my notebook at least 10 to 20 celsius cooler.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
It's a Dell XPS 15z notebook running Fedora 19 with the mentioned graphic cards. It's basically having this code at rc.local:

#!/usr/bin/bash
if [ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]; then
modprobe nouveau
modprobe radeon
fi

Actual results:
*Now* It's getting hot and these messages during boot

Expected results:
I expect to have it cooler, since it's getting too hot.

Additional info:
It's incredible how it even saved battery and kept it cooler, but now it came back again being hot and wasting my battery pretty quickly.

Comment 1 Marcel Ribeiro Dantas 2013-09-11 13:06:26 UTC
Oh, I forgot to mention that even though I can always see both graphic cards with `lspci`, `lshw -c display` sometimes (like now) show me only the Intel card.

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