On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com<paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > I ran cpufreq-info on my i7 920, and everything looked normal for mine > compared to yours. And I have tens of thousands of transitions on each > CPU (currently at 8 days uptime) > > Can you use cpufreq-set to change the max limit or lock it to a higher > speed? If it works, that's a good sign... if it gets changed back > maybe some userspace powersaving program is messing with it. Like > gnome/KDE or something. If you boot to console and don't start X, does > this problem still happen? I wonder if it happens in X maybe the few > times at greater speeds happened before X loaded. Just a WAG. :) > > For example, on my laptop (not an i7, but an old Athlon from 2004), > the KDE laptop powersaving stuff does not work properly, it either > locks me at slowest speed, or highest speed, or... but I think in my > case it's related to the corrupt DSDT, crappy BIOS and complete > inability for it to read the battery state most of the time... It > doesn't know if it's plugged in or on battery, or how much battery > life is left, or it thinks 84% remains and that number never changes > (until laptop suddenly dies without warning). Of course all of that > works perfectly fine in Windows on the same machine... > > In my kernel config on my i7, in the cpufreq sections I have this: > > # > # CPU Frequency scaling > # > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS is not set > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=y > > # > # CPUFreq processor drivers > # > # CONFIG_X86_PCC_CPUFREQ is not set > CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y > # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 is not set > # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO is not set > # CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD is not set > > > I can send you my entire .config if you want to compare. > > Yes, mine is quite similar: # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=y # # CPUFreq processor drivers # # CONFIG_X86_PCC_CPUFREQ is not set CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 is not set # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO is not set # CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD is not set # # shared options # # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB is not set CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER=y CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y I do run KDE but it is independent of KDE. I don't run kdm by default, just the console, and it is still the same. In fact, the KDE power stuff is not even around. Could that mean it's just a USE flag issue? It doesn't seem it because I have acpi and udev. -- Bill Longman
