Thanks Travis for listing down your BIOS settings. The changes I made to match your settings: Config - Power 8254 Timer Clock Gating -> Auto <<<< this was to Disabled in my BIOS Config - USB Always On USB - Disabled <<<< this was Enabled in my BIOS Security - I/O Port Access Memory Card Slot -> Disabled <<<< this was Enabled in my BIOS Boot UEFI/Legacy Boot -> Both <<< this was UEFI only UEFI/Legacy Boot -> Priority UEFI First
I installed 6.6 on an external drive. After some intensive use (Chromium streaming 4K video), fan kicks in. However, when closing down Chromium (or at least the 4K tab), FAN will stop running after a short while and won't stay up consistently anymore - similar to 6.5's behaviour. @Dave, what are your BIOS settings? If different, would be interested to know if those given by Travis would lower the ~15W idling to ~10W on 6.6 ... Cheers On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:30 AM Travis Cole <k...@plek.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, at 10:06, Josh wrote: > > Have you tried on 6.5? > > > > My X1rev6 did not like the upgrade to 6.6. heavy cpu consumption, > > super hot, laggy when browsing and fan spinning consistently. > > > > I've reinstalled 6.5 and been using the same settings as yours. > > everything is back to normal. I guess I will wait for 6.7... > > I've been running the latest 6.6-current on my x1c6 and it works great. > > Really fast, wakes from suspend/hibernate. Isn't laggy, doesn't > get too hot unless I'm doing a long build. > > However, I did somehow hit on some BIOS settings that made it > behave as you describe. I was also seeing some failures to suspend, > and it seemed like lid-action events might be getting missed. I could shut > the lid and then ssh in. Sometimes for a while after boot a single core would > be pegged for a few minutes. > > To fix it, I reset the BIOS to defaults, then set the following: > > Config - Power > Sleep State -> Linux > 8254 Timer Clock Gating -> Auto > Config - USB > USB UEFI BIOS Support -> Enabled > Always On USB - Disabled > Config - Thunderbolt 3 > Thunderbolt BIOS Assist Mode -> Enabled > Security - I/O Port Access > Bluetooth -> Disabled (OpenBSD doesn't support it anyway) > Memory Card Slot -> Disabled (I read on the Arch Wiki (1.) some reports of > this sucking power, and I don't use it.) > Fingerprint Reader -> Disabled > Security - Secure Boot Configuration > Secure Boot -> Disabled > Boot > UEFI/Legacy Boot -> Both > UEFI/Legacy Boot -> Priority UEFI First > CSM Support - Yes > > I'm not sure all of the above are necessary, but mine works wonderfully since > I set it up > this way. I'm also running BIOS version 1.43, which is the latest. > > > 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_6)
