[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2016-05-29 Thread Peter Saunderson
See first patch (does not fix the problem) and further discussion at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=146435528326660=2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Saunderson
Bug report submitted - http://marc.info/?l=linux- kernel=144917448916562=2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-12-03 Thread Peter Saunderson
how can I add my bug to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121#c29.. I dont want to create a new bug that just gets dropped as a duplicate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-30 Thread Peter Saunderson
Loaded the latest Kernel .. Following produced erratic fan speed .. see that the fan naming seems sorted. Pity that did not solve it! # echo 200 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 # echo 70 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 # sensors radeon-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1:+57.0°C (crit =

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-30 Thread Peter Saunderson
I take that back.. I see that the fan ordering is still the same as all the other failing kernels... not that I think that it will make any difference anyway! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-30 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Peter Saunderson, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you please report this problem following the instructions verbatim at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel to the appropriate venue (TO: Pali Rohár Guenter Roeck, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Arnd Bergmann CC:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Peter Saunderson, could you please test the latest mainline kernel (4.4-rc2+cod1) and advise to the results? ** Tags removed: needs-bisect ** Tags added: bisect-done ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-4.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Cut from Bug Description. ** Attachment added: "dmesg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514052/+attachment/4527212/+files/dmesg ** Description changed: I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and almost immediately my CPU fan started speeding and slowing without good

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Description changed: - I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and almost immediately my CPU fan - started speeding and slowing without good reason even when the PC is - idle. + After upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10 my CPU fan started speeding and slowing + without good reason even when the PC is idle.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-28 Thread Peter Saunderson
As expected f989e55452c74b4f7b22c889b8ec9f1192aaeec4 is a bad commit. When kernel built with the preceeding commit 1a131ca1de7a84cf3827c418ee5971b493c6f23f then the fan is well behaved.. ie echo 200 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 The fan speed builds up gradually and results in a reasonable

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-28 Thread Peter Saunderson
Small update... still using 1a131ca1de7a84cf3827c418ee5971b493c6f23f CPU fan just shot up to high revs and then back down to low revs after several hours of use. Just one shot no more high revs so very different characteristics to the bad kernel but still interesting. Core 0: +31.0°C

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-24 Thread Peter Saunderson
Just cloned the kernel source and confirmed that f989e55452c74b4f7b22c889b8ec9f1192aaeec4 is in the range Ubuntu-4.2.0-18.22 Ubuntu-3.19.0-20.20 so I will have a go first at building / testing the kernel either side of this commit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-24 Thread Peter Saunderson
Ok so I might have a bit of time to start this... in summary I have already on my machine kernel 3.19.0-31-generic (last good version before my update) kernel 4.2.0-17-generic (bad version installed with wily) If I understand the basic process (from reading

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Yuriy Vidineev, you need to use the default Ubuntu kernel (not the third party mainline one). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title: erratic fan speed and little

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-22 Thread Yuriy Vidineev
Hello Christopher, Unfortunately I can't do it for now: "The problem cannot be reported: This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again." I use 4.3.0-040300-generic. Looks like simplest way to do it for me - download 16.04 daily build and test on

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-21 Thread Yuriy Vidineev
Dell XPS13 9333, Ubuntu 14.04, linux 4.3.0-040300-generic The same behavior -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-21 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Yuriy Vidineev, it will help immensely if you filed a new report via a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux Please feel free to subscribe me to it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-16 Thread Paco Orozco
Hi, I've tried to use "ubuntu-bug linux", It open my browser, I login but I don't know what to do after. It says "no similar bug reports were found", must I create one new? Paco On 15/11/15 19:28, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: > Paco Orozco, it will help immensely if you filed a new report

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-15 Thread Paco Orozco
I have this problem on an Inspiron 580. Blacklisting dell-smm-hwmon seems to solve it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title: erratic fan speed and little control

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-15 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Paco Orozco, it will help immensely if you filed a new report via a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux Please feel free to subscribe me to it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-12 Thread Peter Saunderson
sorry should have said to stop itto stop it echo 200 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 echo 70 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 reboot before the reboot cpu fan is slow but erratic whilst the reboot the cpu fan goes up to max then stops when linux unloaded. -- You received this bug notification

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-12 Thread Peter Saunderson
Just tried out the kernel as per instructions Linux HomeMegaUbuntu 4.3.0-040300-generic #201511020949 SMP Mon Nov 2 14:50:44 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux echo 200 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 echo 70 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1 results in the erratic fan speed. if no erratic

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-12 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Peter Saunderson, the next step is to fully commit bisect from kernel 3.19 to 4.2 in order to identify the last good kernel commit, followed immediately by the first bad one. This will allow for a more expedited analysis of the root cause of your issue. Could you please do this following

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-12 Thread Benjamin
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514052 Title: erratic fan

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-10 Thread Benjamin
The issue remains using the kernel 4.3.0 on my Dell Studio XPS 8000 This issue came when i upgraded My Ubuntu from vivid to wily so it worked well on kernels 3.19.* I have even done a fresh install of wily from the official ISO to be sure it wasn't a configuration issue. -- You received this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-09 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Does this issue go away if you boot back into the prior kernel version? Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.3 kernel[0]. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-08 Thread Benjamin
Since "dell-smm-hwmon" seems to be an alias of the i8k module, and based on the solution from the #100121 of the kernel bug tracker, blacklist "dell-smm-hwmon" resolved the issue at least on my Dell Studio XPS 8000. I tried many hard reboots to confirm this. However i don't really know this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-08 Thread Peter Saunderson
attached dmi decode for the offending machine ** Attachment added: "dmidecode.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514052/+attachment/4515169/+files/dmidecode.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-08 Thread Benjamin
I have the same problem with a DELL Studio XPS 8000. This bug is related to this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #100121 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121 -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-08 Thread Peter Saunderson
On my machine I seem to have i8k built into the kernel rather than as a loadable module # modinfo i8k filename: /lib/modules/4.2.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.ko alias: i8k license:GPL description:Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver author:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-07 Thread Peter Saunderson
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected wily ** Description changed: I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and almost immediately my CPU fan started speeding and slowing without good reason even when the PC is idle. I tried various things but then found that if I leave the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514052] Re: erratic fan speed and little control kernel 4.2

2015-11-07 Thread Peter Saunderson
Just quick addition to the description.. Here is a log of the processor fan RPM taken over a few seconds as the PC is idle showing what I consider to be excessive changes in the CPU fan RPM whilst the CPU temperatures are quite low and the PC is idle: Processor Fan:382 RPM Processor Fan: