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Sleep / Suspend no longer turning off fans on GPD Win Mini 2023

Hello, I noticed that sleep has not been reliable lately on GPD Win Mini 2023, using Bazzite Gnome stable. Closing the lid or pushing Power Button has in the past reliably suspended the device, with fans turning off. I've updated Bazzite with 'ujust update' on occasion over the course the past week or so.

Now the device tries to suspend, the screen turns off but the fans are still spinning. It behaves like a GPD Win 4 6800u on windows where pushing the power button will turn off display but doesnt actually go to sleep. my specs are below:

GPD Win Mini 2023
cpu: 7840u
ram: 64gb
ssd:2tb micron 2400

FreddyOP•1/13/25, 6:52 AM

additional info:
noticed that my ssd fan,(plugged into rumble motor power) turns off when lid is shut, so it does seem to be affected by suspend procedure. maybe gpd win mini fan is whats not being detected by suspend? used to work great in the past, many thanks for any suggestions or help

antheas•1/13/25, 9:51 AM

try testing

FFreddy additional info: noticed that my ssd fan,(plugged into rumble motor power) turns...

antheas•1/13/25, 9:52 AM

the controller turns off before suspending

Aantheas the controller turns off before suspending

FreddyOP•1/13/25, 4:13 PM

i see, thanks, i'll try testing around with it today to see if i can figure what may have caused it to not fully sleep properly..please let me know if you have any ideas that i may also try and test

i'll probably try rolling back to a pinned deployment today to see if i can see if i can get it back to what it used to

FreddyOP•1/13/25, 6:30 PM

tried a couple different pinned deployments to see if it works there, but sadly still the same thing. fan still stays spinning

FreddyOP•1/13/25, 6:30 PM

FFreddy Click to see attachment

antheas•1/13/25, 6:41 PM

Ok I got you

antheas•1/13/25, 6:41 PM

You need to reset CMOS/ec

antheas•1/13/25, 6:41 PM

Hold the power button

antheas•1/13/25, 6:41 PM

Happens sometimes

antheas•1/13/25, 6:42 PM

Bios might be a bit bugged

antheas•1/13/25, 6:42 PM

Or update the bios if windows but probably the previous will fix

Aantheas You need to reset CMOS/ec

FreddyOP•1/13/25, 6:47 PM

many thanks antheas, going to try this this afternoon

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 5:19 AM

update to this, updated the bios in windows and held the power button to try and reset but it still doesn't sleep right, so strange. will be testing further if I can get to the bottom of it

may try reset button on side of device, usually am very hesitant before pushing that so checking other things first

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 6:29 PM

ended up trying the reset button but no results there. strange, I never used to have sleep issues on Linux and it felt like it started doing this in the new year. would a rebase help restore anything that may be corrupted? May also try ‘rpm-ostree reset’ first as I’m outta options at this moment

FFreddy ended up trying the reset button but no results there. strange, I never used to ...

antheas•1/14/25, 6:36 PM

try a version from early december or october

antheas•1/14/25, 6:36 PM

@Aru can chime in

Aru•1/14/25, 9:21 PM

just in case, do you have game recording enabled?

Aru•1/14/25, 9:21 PM

check in steam settings just to make sure it's off

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:22 PM

hey Aru, thanks I’m checking now

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:23 PM

Game recording looks like it has been set to Off

Aru•1/14/25, 9:24 PM

ok, so not that then. tbh, I don't know what could be causing your issue. you're the first that I can think of to report a suspend issue on the win mini

Aru•1/14/25, 9:24 PM

side note, there is no 6800u win mini

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:24 PM

That’s my mistake, I meant win 4 6800u, will revise the post

Aru•1/14/25, 9:24 PM

win 4 6800u works fine with suspend too though, i have one

Aru•1/14/25, 9:25 PM

but anyways

Aru•1/14/25, 9:25 PM

i wonder if it could be related to the suspend stuff that antheas added for the GPD Win 4 as a workaround

Aru•1/14/25, 9:25 PM

newer GPD Win 4 models have a random wake issue that antheas added a workaround for

AAru win 4 6800u works fine with suspend too though, i have one 🤔

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:25 PM

Oh, I wrote that’s how it behaves in windows for that, I’ve since installed bazzite in that and works fine there too!

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:28 PM

I see, now I wonder too, right now it feels like how modern standby works in windows I think for these devices, like it doesn’t fully power down

like if I tried to suspend on this thing on windows, this behavior is what I’d expect there but not on Linux

Aru•1/14/25, 9:28 PM

do you know how to rollback your bazzite version?

Aru•1/14/25, 9:28 PM

try testing some different versions and see if any of them solve it

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:28 PM

yea, I did a search and got the command to do it, was going to rebase to older one as antheas suggested. Still finding the page with old images though

FFreddy yea, I did a search and got the command to do it, was going to rebase to older o...

Aru•1/14/25, 9:29 PM

bazzite-rollback-helper list

bazzite-rollback-helper list

Aru•1/14/25, 9:29 PM

will show you available versions to rollback to

Aru•1/14/25, 9:29 PM

then bazzite-rollback-helper rebase version_num_herebazzite-rollback-helper rebase version_num_here

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 9:29 PM

cheers, thanks Aru. Will report back after some testing after the rebase

FFreddy cheers, thanks Aru. Will report back after some testing after the rebase

Aru•1/14/25, 9:30 PM

yeah, if you end up finding a bazzite image where everything is working, then it's some sort of regression in bazzite

Aru•1/14/25, 9:30 PM

if not, then it could be something else

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 10:49 PM

rebased to latest stable, early dec, october, and stable-40, same thing happening, so must be something else

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 10:49 PM

it's probably my fan or something, this win mini has a cooling modification on it. heatsink, ssd fan plugged into rumble motor(this turns off successfully) and a bigger fan replacement

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 10:50 PM

bleh, sucks cause it worked fine day one of installing bazzite on this thing, cooling mod and all

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 10:50 PM

many thanks for the suggestions and help, going to see what else i can try

Aru•1/14/25, 11:42 PM

Hrm yeah, if it's present even on early Oct, then it's probably something else.

Do you happen to remember if you installed anything around the time the problem started to show up?

Aru•1/14/25, 11:42 PM

Or if you previously ran any sort of scripts?

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 11:51 PM

Hmm the only scripts in terminal I’ve installed in the past few months were:

decky loader
unofficial PowerControl Electron Desktop
SimpleDeckyTDP-Desktop
Layered package of IVPN.rpm

the rest of my apps are app images and Steam software

I started noticing it wasn’t sleeping right late December to the new year, I recall before that it slept just fine. I’ll attach images of my desktop as it’s mainly what I use while on it

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 11:51 PM

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 11:52 PM

app on the dock are frequent day to day

FreddyOP•1/14/25, 11:52 PM

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Sleep / Suspend no longer turning off fans on GPD Win Mini 2023

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