i915 Kaby Lake Refresh + HD 620 hard crash on suspend, hibernate and even just screen blanking
The computer freeze when trying to suspend, hibernate or even when gnome just blanks the screen. If I disable suspend and screen blanking in the options the computer is stable. But obviously not ideal to have the screen always on and be unable to use suspend on a laptop. The computer just hangs with no clues in the logs after rebooting.
I have an Asus Zenbook ux391u, with i7-8550U CPU (Kaby Lake Refresh), UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2). I'm using the i915 driver on Ubuntu 22.04 right now, I've tried different versions and different kernels, including the latest 6.0-rc6 kernel, for a couple of years now.
A workaround that seems to resolve the problem completely is to add the kernel parameter i915.enable_dc=0
. But from what I understand this increases power consumption. I read about the workaround on LinuxReviews first which indicates that it's a common issue people have with this chipset.
Since i915.enable_dc=0
seems to solve the problem and the computer only hangs during suspend and screen blank I suspect it's a problem with the i915 driver.
It seems to be the same problem that is described in issue #2225 (closed)