On Sunday 02 January 2011 04:39:10 Bill Longman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Mick wrote:
> > Did you diff the kernel configs to see what's different between the two
> > OS'?
>
> There was no /proc/config.gz. How do you find it without that? I looked
> through the proc tree but didn't
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Mick wrote:
>
> Did you diff the kernel configs to see what's different between the two
> OS'?
>
There was no /proc/config.gz. How do you find it without that? I looked
through the proc tree but didn't find anything.
I added some printk's to the kernel and I see
On Saturday 01 January 2011 23:50:21 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 01/01/2011 03:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Am 2010-12-31 11:59, schrieb Mick:
> >> Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware
> >> for it?
> >
> > Yes, that would also have been my next question.
>
I actually am running the latest firmware. I had thought that maybe that was
the problem, but I rev'ed it about a month ago and it did not solve it. Am
waiting for the Ubuntu 10.10 to finish downloading and give that a whirl.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2010-
Am 2010-12-31 11:59, schrieb Mick:
> Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware for it?
Yes, that would also have been my next question.
Maybe you even *find* a bug in that BIOS right now that should be corrected.
On Friday 31 December 2010 01:22:11 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman:
> >> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> >>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a
> >>> live-c
On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman:
>> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?
>>
>> Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to
Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman:
> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?
>
> Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to 2.67
> GHz.works great!
good to hear. So it is solve
On 12/30/2010 09:55 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote:
>> On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote:
>>> Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND
>>> ?
>>
>> Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it
>> wo
On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> > Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND
> > ?
>
> Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it
> would behave at top speed if I set it to "p
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman:
>
>> The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config
>> for it:
>
> [..]
>
> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?
Well, if I change the
On 12/30/2010 12:21 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote:
>
> This is what my i7 Q is showing:
>
> Handle 0x0005, DMI type 4, 42 bytes
> Processor Information
> Socket Designation: U2E1
> Type: Central Processor
> Family:
> Manufacturer
On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND ?
Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it
would behave at top speed if I set it to "performance". No luck, though.
And I can easily change the governor. It s
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman:
>
>> The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config
>> for it:
> [..]
>
> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?
That's a very good questio
On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mick wrote:
> > Just a wild guess: are you running some desktop applet that manages the
> > cpu
> > frequency and is stuck on manual with a low setting?
> >
> > I have the i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, which is su
Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman:
> The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config
> for it:
[..]
Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?
On Thursday 30 December 2010 02:56:05 Bill Longman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman
>
> > 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_D
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman:
>
> > 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_*
> > 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000
> > 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000
> > conserva
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mick wrote:
> Just a wild guess: are you running some desktop applet that manages the
> cpu
> frequency and is stuck on manual with a low setting?
>
> I have the i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, which is supposedly go up to 2.8G with turbo
> boost, but can't say that I have e
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman
> 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
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 20:51:05 Bill Longman wrote:
> > Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the
> > acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened.
> > cpufreq-aperf shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS,
> > too. Thanks for the p
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
>> Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the
>> acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened. cpufreq-aperf
>> shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS, too. Thanks for the
>> pointers.
>
> Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the
> acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened. cpufreq-aperf
> shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS, too. Thanks for the
> pointers.
>
Here's an interesting item:
12:41:00# cat /sys/devic
addition: some also point at enabling EIST in BIOS
Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman:
> 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_*
> 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000
> 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000
> conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance
> 1199000
> acpi-cpufreq
> p
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 29.12.2010 18:40, schrieb Paul Hartman:
>
> > So it seems similar to yours except that your max_freq and min_freq
> > are the same! Which matches what you say about it never going faster
> > than the minimum speed.
>
> cpufreq-set
Am 29.12.2010 18:40, schrieb Paul Hartman:
> So it seems similar to yours except that your max_freq and min_freq
> are the same! Which matches what you say about it never going faster
> than the minimum speed.
cpufreq-set -u ?
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Bill Longman wrote:
> A strangeness I have noted is that /proc/cpuinfo has this for its power
> capabilities:
> power management:
> Nothing.
FWIW I have Core i7 920, and it also has nothing in the power
management in cpuinfo, but CPU frequency scaling does work a
I have a nagging problem that is driving me batty.
I have a Dell Precision M4500:
Linux m4500 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 29 07:57:47 PST 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz
and it even ha
29 matches
Mail list logo
