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  • What are your favorite battery saving tweaks on Solus?

Mayeut I've run Solus on my XPS 15 consistantly for about a year and a half now with the fans only turning on periodically. Just curious, but did turning off the dedicated GPU using bbswitch fix the fan issue for you?

      alecbcs I have never managed to operate bbswitch properly. I had randomly freezes, crashes or fans at 100% continuously.

          Mayeut Interesting! What model of XPS are you on? I have a XPS 15 9560 and I had to add acpi_rev_override=1 as a kernel parameter to prevent my CPU from locking up occasionally and freezing the system.
          Note: Only add this kernel parameter if your using the intel graphics card. Otherwise, from my experience, it will crash the kernel during boot.

              alecbcs I have exactly the same model. Maybe I'll have to give Solus a chance with your advice. If you're OK I'll come back and post here what the installation gives.

                I use everyday the same laptop model (full HD screen) with Solus since version 2017.01.01.0 and it works very well.

                  kyrios do you use the Intel Integrated Graphics or the Nvidia card?

                      you convinced me, I will try again very quickly. I may have made mistakes before.

                      kyrios Nice that's basically the same for me as well. I've found the the Intel Card is really enough for mostly everything and the long battery life is excellent! Are you using bbswitch to power off the Nvidia card? Also do you need the acpi_rev_override=1 kernel parameter on your system?

                      Actually on the topic of XPS 15s, are you still using the Killer Wireless card? I had to switch it out for a Intel chip a while ago for better wireless stability on WPA2 Coperate Systems but I've been curious if anyone else has experienced issues with their wireless.

                        bbswitch is installed but tbqf I don't recall if I did something with it (I did this early 2017).
                        Yep, I'm still using the killer wireless card. I read many people had issue with it on linux but personally I never had any problem with it.

                        The only problem I had was the computer "catching fire" one day when I made it working too intensively for Solus. 🔥

                        kyrios c'est quoi tbqf ? Parce que moi je ne blacklist que nouveau. Ça me permet déjà de gagner 30-45 min de batterie mais je dépasse rarement les 2 heures.

                            Use my Chromebook as much as possible....... runs and hides!!!!!

                            Mayeut What do you mean? Are you installing the correct version of bbswitch for the kernel version you are running? There is a bbswitch for the stable kernel and a bbswitch-current for the current kernel.