Hardware cursor uses a lot of power when visible on ADL-P
When the hardware cursor is visible on my ADL-P laptop, psys is consistently 2 W higher than baseline (3 W versus 1 W). When the hardware cursor is hidden, psys readings drop back down to the baseline (1 W). This doesn't happen when using a software cursor.
This happens 100% of the time. It should be easy to reproduce by simply monitoring psys while the hardware cursor is visible.
I tested a CFL laptop and it doesn't have this issue; the problem only occurs on my ADL-P laptop.
Here is info on my system:
[root@sultan-box /root]# inxi -Fzm
System: Kernel: 6.0.12 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.4 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 5470 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 08VWC1 v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.8.0 date: 10/07/2022
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 60.5 Wh (86.6%) condition: 69.9/70.6 Wh (99.0%)
Memory: RAM: total: 31.02 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (8.5%)
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 8 EC: None
Device-1: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-2: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-3: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-4: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-5: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-6: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-7: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
Device-8: Motherboard size: 4 GiB speed: spec: 6400 MT/s actual: 5200 MT/s
CPU: Info: 10-Core model: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 20 MiB
Speed: 1900 MHz min/max: 400/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1900 2: 1900 3: 4310 4: 1900 5: 1900 6: 1900 7: 1900
8: 3468 9: 1900 10: 1900 11: 1900 12: 3228 13: 494 14: 400 15: 1900 16: 1900 17: 1900 18: 1900 19: 1900 20: 1900
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA107GLM [RTX A1000 Laptop GPU] driver: N/A
Display: server: X.Org 21.1.99 driver: loaded: modesetting resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.3
Audio: Device-1: Intel driver: intel-ipu6
Device-2: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.12 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.61 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 1.38 TiB (75.6%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Smart Modular Tech. model: SHPP41-2000GM size: 1.82 TiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 1.38 TiB (76.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 236.1 MiB used: 46.9 MiB (19.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 246.1 MiB used: 46.6 MiB (19.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.02 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 364 Uptime: 6m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.09
Edited by Sultan Alsawaf