[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-09 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Occams Beard, to keep this relevant to upstream, one would want check for, and test the latest mainline kernel (now 4.9-rc4) as it is released. Could you please advise? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread Petr Soukup
Oh, and I have found this: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/precise/12.04-OSP1/ but it is Ubuntu 12.04, probably good for study purposes, not sure I would want using 4-years old OS ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread Petr Soukup
Peter, thank for clarifying things for me, I appreciate it. Also, have you tried the http://linux.dell.com/ ? It's kind of unofficial dell Linux support site. Or so they say ... >> Would it be illegal to release it?? Its open source anyway. :/ Sure, Ubuntu is open source, not sure if you can

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread turoyo dee
thanks, I'm still determined to try a few more things. If nothing works, I have no choice but to try i8kutils anyway. And I feel better having a reference config that works from someone with the same machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread Peter
This is what I am using, but I am not taking any responsibility of damage caused on your laptop. :) Also you can play with the temps to get the fan speeds to you satisfaction... # /etc/i8kmon.conf # Run as daemon, override with --daemon option set config(daemon) 0 # Automatic fan control,

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread turoyo dee
peter-biely, could you share your i8kutils settings? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread filsd
Would it be illegal to release it?? Its open source anyway. :/ I imagined that Dell wound not "guarantee" that would work or give any support to those other users. (But we know it works) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-07 Thread Peter
Petr: ad 1: Possibly yes ad 2: yes (I haven't seen anywhere the ISO for download) ad 3: i8kutils seems working, I've tried that. But yes, in case of wrong temp. setting you can damage your CPU/GPU, I'm using it as workaround but I am not satisfied (not sleeping very well) by using that. --

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread Petr Soukup
Just to clarify this for me, because I'm getting kind of lost in reading all the posts, both Ubuntu developers in this thread, and kernel developers in the kernel thread where this issue is reported are more or less blaming this on Dell firmware, am I getting this correctly? Concerning the Dell

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread Alex Ivanov
Me too please! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread Occams Beard
Count me in as well, I likely won't have time this week to try it, but I would be very interested to know what Dell does differently with their version of Ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread Peter
count me in for the iso! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread filsd
Hi! I have this Laptop (i5 model) and I bought it from Dell (Brazil) already with Ubuntu (14.04) certified. Using the Dell tools I can make an ISO of this version. I have been using this version of Ubuntu for months now and it doesn't have any problems. ANY. (I even updated the Nvidia drivers

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-06 Thread Peter
Fan issue persists on 4.8.6 and 4.9-RC3 with BIOS 1.2.0. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-05 Thread turoyo dee
additional info: running on integrated graphics HD 530 with 16.04 LTS + 4.4 kernel I just updated to BIOS version: 1.2.0 [released: 31 Oct 2016] issue persists. [I will install and test 16.10+4.8 next week and post results] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-05 Thread Peter
I've read (but I do not remember where) that Lenovo had the same problem with the fans on some models with 6700HQ CPU, but they released BIOS update which resolved this problem, so it seems like a problem of ACPI/BIOS (maybe I am just wrong and the problem is really somewhere else). On the other

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-05 Thread Petr Soukup
Correction, I mean 7559,not 7759 ... sorry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage notifications

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-05 Thread Petr Soukup
Occams Beard, have you tested the fan issue with kernel 4.8? Here, you only mention kernel 4.7, but 4.8 was supposed to fix Skylake power management issues. I have noticed people having fan issues on other laptop models with Skylake, mostly i7 6700hq, (Asus, Lenovo), as well in Linux, so this

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread turoyo dee
i'm also experiencing this issue - only running on integrated graphics getting 3.5-4 hrs. average battery life and hoping to get more if and when this issue is fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Occams Beard
> one guy was actually claimimg the other day that 7559 worked for him almost out of the box with Debian-testing "Working" can be very subjective depending on who you ask. This bug report and the kernel bugzilla report show that many users are having the fan issue. In any case, let's not

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Petr Soukup
Thank you so much for your inputs, everyone ... > If Nvidia is properly shutted down, the only big issue lasted is a bad Skylake power management in Linux (going no deeper than package c-state 3), but then almost any Skylake laptop is not the best choice. Wasn't Skylake bad power management

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Occams Beard
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch says the discrete nvidia card is OFF. Fans are still running. I do not use bumblebee/optirun, only bbswitch. I will try bumblebee when i get some free time and see if that makes any difference. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Alex Ivanov
> Disabling nvidia with bbswitch makes no difference for me. Fans keep on spinning. I have an i7. Are you sure it going off? What "cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch" and "optirun --status" do say? Anyway I can't say sure for i7 model. > I am not convinced the fan issue even has anything to do with the

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Cuate
Has anyone tried changing the EFI .aml files to try and fix some of the issues in ubuntu? I saw a hackingtosh tutorial for el capital (which is an os that was not made for skylake) on 7559 i7 UHD where they modify efi .aml files to make it work. The result was a i7 7559 uhd laptop running macos

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Occams Beard
> Dell has introduced a successor of Inspiron 7559 - Inspiron 7566 Stay far away from it if you are a Linux user. It probably has the same crappy Dell bios/ACPI. Also Dell is no help and is generally clueless about everything. Actually, I would advise staying away from any nvidia optimus

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Occams Beard
Disabling nvidia with bbswitch makes no difference for me. Fans keep on spinning. I have an i7. I am not convinced the fan issue even has anything to do with the graphics. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Alex Ivanov
s/big issue/battery hog/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Alex Ivanov
> but not as good (often) as on Windows Most likely he hasn't configured and tested whether Bumblebee or bbswitch properly disables Nvidia GPU when not used. After doing this at my side my fans are managed not worser than in Windows. > On the other hand, the i7 model has this fans problem, see

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Peter
A friend of mine he has i5 model and he claims that the fans are shutting off, but not as good (often) as on Windows. On the other hand, the i7 model has this fans problem, see my bug I've created on bugzilla. Also battery lasts less on Linux than on Windows. From mine point of view, buying this

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Alex Ivanov
Guys, I don't know what the fans issue you have with 7559. Fans on i5 model when Bumblebee is correctly configured (check whether it disables the Nvidia GPU when its not used) are behaving ok. As for DDR4 I see no benefit atm. There is no low voltage support yet, so I'd avoid getting DDR4

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-11-04 Thread Petr Soukup
Dell has introduced a successor of Inspiron 7559 - Inspiron 7566 at the end of October 2016 - http://www.dell.com/sg/p/inspiron-15-7566-laptop/pd?oc=w51755724sgw10 .It has got the same CPU, GPU and display but comes with DDR4 RAM and SSD disk. It also has a new look, much uglier than 7559 in my

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-10-21 Thread Alex Ivanov
Regarding not getting into deep power states, maybe this is the culprit? [0.00] Command line: initrd=\efi\nixos\f74mgfd5d4k9n154p0ffs5r0d3zazv3n-initrd-initrd.efi systemConfig=/nix/store/50044hcm6lf7fc48nlikfpbap4zjp54n-nixos-system-nixos-16.09.773.b8ede35

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-09-20 Thread Peter
Already tried the i8kutils, but this is just workaround, not a real solution for this problem. Also I see that however the CPU is on kernel 4.8 quite effective with power management the whole package can't reach lower than C3 state. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-09-20 Thread Z.H.
Perhaps a workaround: try to install i8kutils! It worked for me, but I'm not sure if it is a real solution. (after installing that package, both fans stopped, but they not started when CPU's temperature were over 60C...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-08-18 Thread Peter
I've created a bug for kernel (hopefully correctly) https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153281 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #153281 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153281 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-08-17 Thread Occams Beard
I've noticed that without the nvidia driver installed the GPU temp sensor always reads 1c. After the nvidia driver is installed it reports the correct temp. I think probably not related to the fan issue. Also it seems strange that the fans stopping didn't survive a reboot. I've noticed that if

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-08-17 Thread Peter
Guys, by installing kernel 4.8-RC2 I've noticed (until I've rebooted) that fans were working fine, once the CPU was heated up they started to spin and then once cooled down to about 41C they stopped. Only one thing I've noticed in psensor utility was that the GPU temperature min/current/max was

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-07-16 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-07-15 Thread Occams Beard
After installing the v4.7-rc7 mainline build kernel I can confirm that this bug still exists. I installed the following 3 debs with sudo dpkg -i *.deb: linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc7_4.7.0-040700rc7.201607110032_all.deb linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc7-generic_4.7.0-040700rc7.201607110032_amd64.deb

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-07-15 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Occams Beard, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. In order to allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue, at your earliest convenience, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-07-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602888 Title: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

[Bug 1602888] Re: Dell Inspiron 7559 fans do not shut off once started, even when cool

2016-07-15 Thread Max
A lot of Dell Inspiron 7559 users are facing this annoying bug. It doesn't matter if we're using the Intel Graphic card or the Nvidia one. I have the problem under Linux Mint and Kubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

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