[Bug 196037] New: Installing Nvidia driver causes fan to run at full speed

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196037

Bug ID: 196037
Summary: Installing Nvidia driver causes fan to run at full
speed
Product: ACPI
Version: 2.5
Kernel Version: 4.8+
Hardware: Other
OS: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: blocking
Priority: P1
Component: ACPICA-Core
Assignee: acpi_acpica-***@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
Reporter: ***@outlook.com
Regression: No

Installing Nvidia driver and then switching to Intel graphic card causes the
system to freeze and the fan rotate at full speed. The only way I manged to
avoid this problem is by adding the follwing kernel paramters:

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"


Details:

Whenever Nvidia driver is installed, as long as the user doesn't switch to
Intel graphic card from nvidia-prime, things work fine. When the user switches
to Intel graphic card from nvidia-prime and logout, the system crashes and
every time this happens the user had to force shutdown the machine. When
rebooting, the same thing happens, the system freezes and the user had to force
shutdown the machine again.

This is a link to Nvidia devtalk forum where multiple users reported the same
problem:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1013317/linux/nvidia-gefore-gtx-960m-driver-fails-on-ubuntu-16-04/post/5165437/#5165437

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196037

--- Comment #1 from Mansoor Ahmed (***@outlook.com) ---
Specifically Nvidia driver 375 version 375.66 and lower versions.

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196037

Len Brown (***@kernel.org) changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |***@kernel.org
Component|ACPICA-Core |Video(DRI - non Intel)
Resolution|--- |INVALID
Assignee|acpi_acpica-***@kernel-bug |drivers_video-***@kernel-bu
|s.osdl.org |gs.osdl.org
Product|ACPI |Drivers

--- Comment #2 from Len Brown (***@kernel.org) ---
Please contact Nvidia for support for their nvidia driver --
as it is not open source, and not part of the upstream linux kernel.

Indeed, when their driver is loaded, the kernel is tainted
and no part of it can be supported by anybody besides Nvidia.

Consider the open source nouveau driver, as an alternative.