Dear Luis, Many thanks for your input and guidance here.
'Have you tried to see if this happens with debian's official kernel?' Doh! Of course. Yes I have now, and intel_pstate is active - yay. Complete newb with any kind of kernel config/tweaking/rebuilding - need to do some reading-up. Thanks again, Julian On 16 January 2017 at 15:03, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso <lui...@lftabera.es> wrote: > On lunes, 16 de enero de 2017 1:13:09 (CET) Julian Brooks wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Julian, > > > Fresh install of Sid, with > > liquorix 4.9-3 (2017-01-07) x86_64 kernel (for RT audio work). > > Have also installed linrunner's TLP. > > Have you tried to see if this happens with debian's official kernel? > > > My understanding is that the x230's Ivy Bridge processor should make use > of > > intel_pstate for frequency scaling but I can't seem to load the kernel > > module at boot. > > Is it a module? At least on debian kernels, intel_pstate is inside the > kernel, > not as a separate module. > > $ grep -i pstate config-4.8.0-2-amd64 > CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE=y > > however, on liquorix > > $ grep -i pstate config-4.9.0-3.2-liquorix-amd64 > # CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE is not set > > So it seems that liquorix kernel has not compiled intel_pstate. So could > try > to recompile it as a module for your running kernel of rebuild liquorix > kernel > with intel_pstate support. > > Luis >
