u/Ill-Oil-2027

I have an an515-58 (i5-12500H + 3050ti variant), I run void Linux so unfortunately none of the windows cpu tweaking tools or regedits will work for my system, the GPU reaches a max of ~80C-85C without throttling, able to run at full 75W (no/little cpu load) without ever getting past 85C, but it also seems to heat up the CPU to the point that if any load is put on the CPU it reaches 90C-96C (sometimes spiking at 100C or a few degrees higher for a second or so) I think the thermals are setup to also limit the GPU to 60W when the CPU is under load for the GPU to produce less heat but it still lets the CPU get really hot.

if there are any recommendations besides the normal allow airflow underneath the laptop and repaste the CPU+GPU (already done with mx-4 or mx-6 I don't remember which...) that would work for Linux I would love to hear them so I hopefully don't fry my CPU trying to play VR games

System hardware and software:

Hardware: Acer nitro 5 gaming laptop, Intel CPU, Nvidia 3050ti

Software: Wayland running wayfire, prime-run setup as described in the void handbook due to hybrid graphics, utilizing kernal version 7.0 (tried on 6.18 and 6.12 but still gives the same issues)

The issue: I update about once a week, I updated from driver version 580 to the most recent 595, my GPU is listed on the supported GPU list, Vulkan info shows both my Nvidia 3050ti and my Intel irisXE 12th gen. Currently when the system boots it shows the Acer logo, sends me to grub, after selecting a kernal version it sends me to the boot tty (tty 1), then flashes between the boot tty and tty 7 where the desktop/login screen is supposed to be, it shows a terminal login on tty 1. I haven't attempted any fixes yet but this issue persists on kernal versions: 7.0.2, 7.0.0, 6.18.25, 6.12.85, 6.12.82. the 32bit repo is enabled due to having steam installed if that makes any difference to what I need to do to hopefully fix this issue.

POSSIBLE ISSUE FOUND: my system uses sddm, sddm attempts 3 times to display before quitting, changed to lightdm, still didn't work, managed to switch it back to sddm so I could actually use the boot tty without lightdm forcing me onto tty7 every second. I do use elogind but I've had sddm+elogind since I installed void 3 years ago

Progress!: Manually started wayfire, wayfire started psensor (graphical temperature monitor) and it's displaying to an empty desktop with almost no functionality except being able to move the window around and being able to click on stuff in the psensor menu

Update #3: ran llama3.1:3b via ollama and it was able to perfectly utilize my Nvidia GPU with 3.5gb of the model on the GPU and ~1gb of the model on system ram, and nvtop showed my GPU being used during the generation of a response, so now I'm even more stumped as to what is broken