I was testing with mainline/v4.20-rc3 but it was unusable on my machine: running the Quadro P3200 with the nouveau driver created a completely broken display (the nVidia 390 drivers are fine, though). At least this behavior is is identical between 4.18.0-11 and mainline/v4.20-rc3
So unless I have a way to run mainline/v4.20-rc3 with the Ubuntu nVidia package I can't test. ** 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/1803442 Title: Thermal and power monitoring issues: CPU overheats and fan control broken/strange Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On my ThinkPad P72 with i7-8850H CPU (Coffee Lake) the thermal setup is horrible: it runs very hot (you can feel it on the keyboard as well as the air exhausted by the fan) even when idle, the fan speeds up and gets silent after a a short time for no obvious load reasons when the system is idle. (Definition of idle: quite a few browser tabs open in firefox and chrome sitting in the background untouched since a longish time, no interaction by the user with the machine) The reported CPU temperature rises to an average of 60°C during idle with sporadic peaks well over 80°C (e.g. 95°C) for a single CPU. With slight work (browsing the web) temperature rises with more often temperature peaks rising high - expected due to the higher work load. But still far too much for the little work load for such a high end machine. Chances are high that after a short while the CPU frequency gets hard locked at 800 MHz with no way I could figure out to get out of that apart from rebooting. A cross check with Windows 10 (dual boot) showed a much better thermal behavior there. Temperatures stayed lower and under high load the fan is running on a moderate level with the CPUs averaging at about 3 GHz. Actually it showed the behavior that I expected for Linux... During my search for causes and ways to fix it I tried so far: - disabling hardware P-states or even the pstate driver - no improvement (actually I felt it was even slightly worse) - switching from laptop-mode-tools to tlp (no change) - activating everything from powertop (no change) - running powerstat was very interesting: ********* $ powerstat Running for 300.0 seconds (30 samples at 10.0 second intervals). Power measurements will start in 180 seconds time. Time User Nice Sys Idle IO Run Ctxt/s IRQ/s Watts [...] -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Average 6.9 0.0 2.0 91.0 0.0 1.4 6732.7 3615.9 41.71 GeoMean 6.8 0.0 2.0 91.0 0.0 1.3 6129.6 3566.7 41.63 StdDev 1.1 0.0 0.5 1.5 0.1 0.9 4380.3 668.7 2.55 -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Minimum 5.3 0.0 1.4 86.9 0.0 1.0 4508.5 2859.7 37.65 Maximum 10.4 0.0 4.2 93.0 0.4 5.0 28301.5 6420.4 47.85 -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Summary: System: 41.71 Watts on average with standard deviation 2.55 ********* but ********* $ powerstat -R Running for 60.0 seconds (60 samples at 1.0 second intervals). Power measurements will start in 0 seconds time. Time User Nice Sys Idle IO Run Ctxt/s IRQ/s Watts [...] -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Average 6.4 0.0 1.7 91.9 0.0 1.7 4966.6 3426.7 5.18 GeoMean 4.5 0.0 1.1 91.5 0.0 1.5 4158.6 2173.9 4.40 StdDev 6.1 0.0 1.8 7.8 0.1 1.0 3324.3 3723.3 4.00 -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Minimum 1.2 0.0 0.3 71.9 0.0 1.0 1565.0 791.0 2.84 Maximum 23.1 0.0 6.2 98.4 0.3 6.0 13108.0 15195.0 21.91 -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ------ Summary: CPU: 5.18 Watts on average with standard deviation 4.00 Note: power read from RAPL domains: dram, package-0, core, psys. These readings do not cover all the hardware in this device. ********* ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: linux-image-4.18.0-11-generic 4.18.0-11.12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: cm 2134 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: cm 2134 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Wed Nov 14 22:07:52 2018 HibernationDevice: #RESUME=UUID=9cd06200-ed0e-4f66-9baa-a3977c6b59e0 RESUME=/dev/mapper/GROUP-SWAP InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-10 (35 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) MachineType: LENOVO 20MBCTO1WW ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.18.0-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/GROUP-ROOT ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.18.0-11-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.18.0-11-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.175 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-20 (25 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/24/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: N2CET31W (1.14 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20MBCTO1WW dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Defined dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: None dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN2CET31W(1.14):bd10/24/2018:svnLENOVO:pn20MBCTO1WW:pvrThinkPadP72:rvnLENOVO:rn20MBCTO1WW:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone: dmi.product.family: ThinkPad P72 dmi.product.name: 20MBCTO1WW dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_20MB_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad P72 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad P72 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1803442/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp