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I'm not familiar with laptop power management internals, and I have a bit of a problem with Ubuntu 11.10 and HP Envy 14. Waking up from sleep (opening the lid) causes a cooler to spin on maximum speed, it becomes really loud and unpleasant. Where should I start looking? I suppose one of the devices can start sucking power on wake up?

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This works for me on HP Envy 14 running 11.10, from http://linuxenvy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ive-been-being-lazy.html?showComment=1315427419402#c4396376300869253470:

I put a script in my /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d which switches the discrete gpu ON when suspending and turns it back OFF (if it was OFF when suspending). Now my power consumption is the same before and after suspend. Just like when disabling the discrete gpu in bios. I first tried putting the script in /etc/pm/sleep.d, that didn't execute on my system (Ubuntu 11.04/lenvyx 64-bit + ugr). Not sure where to put it on other distros. You can get the script here if interested http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5227387/09_toggle_discrete_gpu, use at your own risk.

After copying the script to /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d, make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/09_toggle_discrete_gpu

In case the DropBox link disappears, here is the code in 09_toggle_discrete_gpu:

#!/bin/sh
#Script to switch on discrete graphics at suspend to avoid suspend bug on ENVY 14, 
#causing increased power consumption after suspend.
#Author Tinux, line 11-39 stolen almost directly from RM's "switch_between_cards.sh" 
#from at http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/
#DISCLAIMER: I only tested this on my own system and I take no responsibility for any
#harm it might cause to your hardware or software


. "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"

suspend_nm()
{
    pci_integrated=$(lspci | grep VGA | sed -n '1p' | cut -f 1 -d " ")
    pci_discrete=$(lspci | grep VGA | sed -n '2p' | cut -f 1 -d " ")

    integrated=$(cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch | grep $pci_integrated | grep -o -P ':.:...:')
    discrete=$(cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch | grep $pci_discrete | grep -o -P ':.:...:')



    if [ "$integrated" = ":+:Pwr:" ]
    then
     integrated_condition=1
    elif [ "$integrated" = ": :Pwr:" ]
    then
     integrated_condition=1
    elif [ "$integrated" = ": :Off:" ]
    then
     integrated_condition=0
    fi

    if [ "$discrete" = ":+:Pwr:" ]
    then
     discrete_condition=1
    elif [ "$discrete" = ": :Pwr:" ]
    then
     discrete_condition=1
    elif [ "$discrete" = ": :Off:" ]
    then
     discrete_condition=0
    fi

    #Switch ON discrete graphics
    if [ $discrete_condition = 0 ]
    then
        echo ON >  /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
    fi

    echo $discrete_condition > /tmp/condition

}

resume_nm()
{
    #Swtich OFF discrete graphics
    if [ -e /tmp/condition ]
    then
        discrete_condition=`cat /tmp/condition`
        rm /tmp/condition
    fi

    if [ $discrete_condition = 0 ]
    then
        echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    hibernate|suspend)
        suspend_nm
        ;;
    thaw|resume)
        resume_nm
        ;;
    *) exit $NA
        ;;
esac

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