I’m a college student, and I need my system retain it’s battery whenever I’m not using it. I can’t afford a dead laptop in the middle of class (speaking from experience) However, it cooks itself inside my backpack. I have tried for 2 days, combing through every solution on the internet.
In s2idle sleep mode, the laptop appears to go to sleep: the display turns off and the fans idle, however a concerning amount of heat emanates from the laptop, and over the course of 30 minutes my battery dropped 20 points.
I run an ASUS K6502VJ, on the latest release of EndeavorOS with KDE. NVIDIA proprietary drivers are installed as well. This has occurred on both power-profiles-daemon and TLP. I am currently using TLP.
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PS: It’s great to know that students are using Linux somewhere. That being said, EndeavourOS is based on Arch Linux. I’m not sure how much you know about Linux, but it’s close to bleeding-edge, which means things may work today, and not tomorrow. As such, it may not be suitable, for a “production environment” — in your case, school. That is, unless you have the experience and expertise to fix things should something go wrong.
In other words, it may be more suitable to use an LTS release distro.
A recent update stopped my system from going to sleep. I was working perfectly and then boom, it wasn’t working. I don’t know if your problem has been going on for a while but mine just started. Hopefully and future update will resolve as quickly as it broke it.
I too have a nvidia card.
Good luck and welcome to the community, I hope you find a solution. I’m a newbie so I certainly don’t have anything to add.
I just had a look at your journalctl, and reading the first Call Trace I see on there, it seems to be pointing at the nvidia driver. unmap_mapping_range+0x116/0x140 Oct 15 23:08:14 Goober kernel: ? __pfx__main_loop+0x10/0x10 [nvidia 1400000003000000474e5500b6595e553982bbae]
Question #1: Are you running the most up-to-date nvidia driver?
Question #2: If you are, are you willing to try removal of the proprietary driver to see if this mitigates the issue?
Question #3: Alternatively if this issue is newer (after the last kernel update some 6 days ago), you might try running the older kernel version to see if the issue is mitigated.
I also had a similar issue after a recent update, but I just tried the solution at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=296978 and updated my nvidia drivers again and after a restart it was fixed. So I’m not sure what fixed it.
I ran @Quower 's solution to no avail.
It still warms up in my bag. I am currently running the latest Nvidia drivers. I might try the open-source drivers, as long as blender can make use of the card.
I’m using kernel version 6.11.3-arch1-1.
Install and use the LTS kernel sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers
Try putting your device to sleep in an X11 session
Check your BIOS for any settings that may be specific to Sleep/Hibernation and Windows
The newest kernel can have the newest bugs.
If things work in X11, we know it’s a Wayland issue.
Sometimes BIOS settings and/or Windows causes problems they shouldn’t.
Lastly, as a sanity check, please share a screenshot(s) of your sleep settings in KDE.
I’ve installed the LTS kernel, so I will try that.
I will also try X11 and report back. I also don’t have any BIOS options related to sleep, it’s unfortunately really basic.
Update: The LTS Kernel prevents the system from waking after sleep, so I will be reverting to the original
Update 2: It might be the nvidia drivers, im uninstalling them.
You should probably keep the LTS kernel installed alongside the current one. It often helps with hardware/firmware compatibility and booting issues.
Forgot to mention this, as I’m not sure if the base EndeavourOS hooks does it automatically.
It is possible that the reason it didn’t boot is that you needed to manually run two commands. Though, this may not be the case if you saw the LTS kernel in the bootloader options.
Thanks, however I ended up doing a complete reinstall of the system. I ran yay -S nvidia and yay -S cuda and everything works great! The system appears to sleep properly now.
