Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2011 02:36 PM, Christoph Frieben wrote: Bug 49 has not been marked a duplicate of whatsoever. Moreover it's active since its status is "NEW" and not "CLOSED". ~C Comment 3 *** Duplicate of bug 505837

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Christoph Frieben
2011/1/3 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": > Now under normal circumstances Matthew Garret or some other kernel > maintainer would have asked you to add to your report, the output from > acpidump but given that this has been incorrectly triaged and marked as a > duplicated of bug 50837 which was filed again

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2011 01:29 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: What I don't understand is that if the CPU supports ACPI, the mainboard supports ACPI, why can't we throttle the CPU using ACPI? As I have mentioned several most likely cause is the BIOS either not configured to do so or unable to do so.. INTEL has

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/01/2011 09:43 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: To be honest, I looked through all the screens of the BIOS and I can't see anything that may affect this. As the ONLY defaults option available is optimal, I gave it a go;) Unfortunately it might not be that obvious which BIOS knob(s) need to be turn

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Steven Haigh
On 4/01/2011 12:29 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 4/01/2011 12:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >>> I wish I could find the site where I got this information as my >>> recollection of it is a bit hazy but part of your problem may be that >>> t

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Steven Haigh
On 4/01/2011 12:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I wish I could find the site where I got this information as my >> recollection of it is a bit hazy but part of your problem may be that >> the p4-clockmod and ondemand are more or less incom

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I wish I could find the site where I got this information as my >> recollection of it is a bit hazy but part of your problem may be that >> the p4-clockmod and ondemand are more or

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > I wish I could find the site where I got this information as my > recollection of it is a bit hazy but part of your problem may be that > the p4-clockmod and ondemand are more or less incompatible. I remember > reading something on kerneltra

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-01 Thread Steven Haigh
On 1/01/2011 5:25 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 12/31/2010 04:33 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> I reset the BIOS to optimal defaults and fired it up. No real change :( >> > > As I mention you might need to turn some knobs in the bios to get this > working so using the optimal defaults might b

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2011-01-01 Thread Christoph Frieben
You might want to have a look at bug reports https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505837 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518377 which dealt with this issue some time ago. Module p4-clockmod does not provide a true frequency scaling as available on systems which support

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/31/2010 04:33 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: I reset the BIOS to optimal defaults and fired it up. No real change :( 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 ;) # modprobe acpi-cpufreq FATAL: Error ins

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Steven Haigh
On 1/01/2011 1:49 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I wish I could find the site where I got this information as my > recollection of it is a bit hazy but part of your problem may be that > the p4-clockmod and ondemand are more or less incompatible. I remember > reading something on kerneltrap or something

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Steven Haigh
On 31/12/2010 10:16 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > 1. update bios to the latest from manufacturer and check bios settings ( > Must do ) Ok. I jumped on the Acer web site... The system is an APSK50 desktop. I noticed the BIOS was from 2006 - the latest is R01-C1. I flashed that using 'fl

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 24/12/2010 4:59 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> I've been trying to nut out an issue with cpuspeed on a Fedora14 box... >> >> It seems when cpuspeed is started, it clocks the frequency back to the >> lowest available (350Mhz in my case), and th

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
... 1. update bios to the latest from manufacturer and check bios settings ( Must do ) 2. restore /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed to it's original form ( Must as well ) Check if things work if they dont after bios update and orignal cpuspeed file and after fiddling with power savings, EIST, process

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-31 Thread Steven Haigh
Sorry - I think I dropped the ball on this Comments inline... On 27/12/2010 12:50 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 12/24/2010 05:59 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> Anyone have any ideas on this? :\ > > BIOS/platform issueis a common cause for the problem you are describing. > > First is to s

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-27 Thread JB
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson gmail.com> writes: > ... We have here on fedora general (users) a similar case. I have a very similar machine (Intel dual core) to the guy in trouble, and I can not fix it for him. My machine works as expected. You may take a look if interested: http://article.gmane.org/gm

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/24/2010 05:59 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: Anyone have any ideas on this? :\ BIOS/platform issueis a common cause for the problem you are describing. First is to see what scaling frequency are offered and you can do so by running... "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_availab

Re: F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-25 Thread Steven Haigh
On 24/12/2010 4:59 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > I've been trying to nut out an issue with cpuspeed on a Fedora14 box... > > It seems when cpuspeed is started, it clocks the frequency back to the > lowest available (350Mhz in my case), and there it stays. > > If I do something to create CPU load ( whil

F14 cpuspeed / ondemand broken?

2010-12-25 Thread Steven Haigh
I've been trying to nut out an issue with cpuspeed on a Fedora14 box... It seems when cpuspeed is started, it clocks the frequency back to the lowest available (350Mhz in my case), and there it stays. If I do something to create CPU load ( while true; do true; done ) then the CPU fails to be cl