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On 12/31/2010 04:33 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:<br>
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I reset the BIOS to optimal defaults and fired it up. No real change :(
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As I mention you might need to turn some knobs in the bios to get
this working so using the optimal defaults might be causing this ;)
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<pre wrap=""># modprobe acpi-cpufreq
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
(/lib/modules/2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):
No such device
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File a bug against the kernel any modern Intel CPU should be driven
with acpi-cpufreq<span class="Apple-style-span"
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medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
'DejaVu Sans','Liberation Sans',sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span>,
the reason I asked you to clean out your config is because you
should not be using "p4-clockmod". <br>
<br>
And to hopefully clear up general internet misconception amongst
users p4-clockmod is a thermal regulation mechanism it is not a
speed control or power management mechanism the driver does not
scale frequency et al the only thing it does is thermal throttling.<br>
<br>
Why it still exist still beats me p4-clockmod reports are utterly
bogus they always have been and using it usually result in the
computer being slower and consuming more power which nobody
wants....<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4D1E05F7.2030302@crc.id.au" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Interesting. Surely this should change to the ondemand governor?!
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Nope it shouldn't be using any governor which should equal to be
using the performance governor<span class="Apple-style-span"
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medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
'DejaVu Sans','Liberation Sans',sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span>.<br>
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The clockmod code should only be throttling when ACPI indicates that
the system needs it due to a thermal event.<br>
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The only thing you can do since you cant use ondemand is set the
cpufreq governor to userspace which
allows the user, or any userspace
program running with UID "root", to set the CPU to a specific frequency
by making a sysfs file "scaling_setspeed" available in the CPU-device
directory. <br>
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<pre wrap="">Check if things work if they dont after bios update and orignal cpuspeed
file and after fiddling with power savings, EIST, processor scaling,
etc.then boot with cpufreq.debug=7 and test latest kernel .35 .36 .37
from koji
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Going to look into this tomorrow. </pre>
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Great :)<br>
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Try the .36 and .37 kernel to see if acpi_cpufreq
module loads in those kernels then boot with cpufreq.debug=7 and
run dmesg > dmesg.txt then file a bug report against the kernel
attache dmesg.txt along with the output from "for x in <i
class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq<span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>*;do echo $x;cat $x;done
&& for x in <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand<span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>*;do echo $x;cat $x;done" to
your report and make note if .36 and .36 work or not<br>
<br>
That should provide the maintainer with sufficient info to start
working on your report. <br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4D1E05F7.2030302@crc.id.au" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">It's 3:33am now on 1/Jan/2011 - so
Happy New Year to all, and lets continue the awesome achievements shown
in Fedora :</pre>
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Happy new year! <br>
( still ca three and an half hour to go here on top of the world )
;)<br>
<br>
JBG<br>
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