[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Cool and quiet in amd64 box



> >>>>>>>> Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> some days ago I updated my old (2004) box with a new hd. In the
> >>>>>>>>> operation I installed a clean lenny. After the installation, all
> >>>>>>>>> more or less is working, I noticed that the box didn't have
> >>>>>>>>> activated the cool and quiet. Probably because I disable it some
> >>>>>>>>> month ago testing some function with the compiz, k8temp module or
> >>>>>>>>> whatever.
[...]
> >> leave cpufrequtils on
> >
> >> Try some different settings in BIOS.I think that the problem lies
> >> there.Can you post your bios settings under power management and/or
> >> anything relevant to acpi?
> >
> > well, in the acpi field there's a S1/POS || S3/POS || Auto parameter that
> > i have tested without success.
> >
> > But, I have found a light loading at boot time the powernow-k8 module,
> > and the box boots till the graphic screen. Then it hangs. The nvidia
> > proprietary driver doesn't have any responsibility, no?
[...]

Hi,

today I have spend some time making some test. I have accomplished to enable 
the cool'n'quiet. However, I must disable cpufrequtils and powernowd because 
it hangs my box. First of all, powernowd has some problem:

[   50.171493] Pid: 3471, comm: powernowd Tainted: P          2.6.26-1-amd64 
#1
[   50.171495] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0ca49e4>]  
[<ffffffffa0ca49e4>] :powernow_k8:powernowk8_target+0x461/0x605
[   50.171501] RSP: 0018:ffff81003e8ebdd8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[   50.171502] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000a RCX: 
0000000000000000
[   50.171505] RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: ffff81003e0476c0 RDI: 
ffffffffa0ca5cd7
[   50.171507] RBP: ffff81003e0476c0 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: 
ffff81003ec20bc0
[   50.171509] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 00000000000f4240 R12: 
000000000000000a
[   50.171511] R13: 000000000000000a R14: 0000000000000006 R15: 
0000000000000002
[   50.171514] FS:  00007f2b477986e0(0000) GS:ffffffff8053b000(0000) 
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   50.171516] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   50.171518] CR2: 00000000480c247e CR3: 000000003e890000 CR4: 
00000000000006e0
[   50.171520] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 
0000000000000000
[   50.171523] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 
0000000000000400
[   50.171525] Process powernowd (pid: 3471, threadinfo ffff81003e8ea000, task 
ffff81003d684540)
[   50.171527] Stack:  ffff81003ec20bc0 0000000a3f99c180 001e848000000000 
ffff8100001b7740
[   50.171531]  0000000000000001 0000000200000000 ffff810033cc8cc0 
00000000001b7740
[   50.171534]  00000000ffffffea ffff81003ec20bc0 0000000000000008 
ffff810033d04000
[   50.171537] Call Trace:
[   50.171552]  
[<ffffffffa0cb9073>] ? :cpufreq_userspace:cpufreq_set+0x5a/0x6f
[   50.171561]  [<ffffffff803a82ee>] ? store_scaling_setspeed+0x4c/0x5f
[   50.171565]  [<ffffffff803a8dc9>] ? lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x46/0x73
[   50.171570]  [<ffffffff803a93c4>] ? store+0x4d/0x6c
[   50.171578]  [<ffffffff802e1a06>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xd2/0x110
[   50.171589]  [<ffffffff8029b1dd>] ? vfs_write+0xad/0x156
[   50.171596]  [<ffffffff8029b77f>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6e
[   50.171604]  [<ffffffff8020be9a>] ? system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f
[   50.171616]
[   50.171617]
[   50.171618] Code: 14 44 89 ea 48 c7 c7 19 5c ca a0 e8 b6 08 59 df e9 a6 00 
00 00 8b 55 28 44 89 f6 48 c7 c7 64 5c ca a0 41 39 d6 75 39 e9 68 01 00 <00> 
8b 74 24 0c 48 89 ef e8 bb f9 ff ff 85 c0 75 7f 8b 55 2c 89
[   50.171638] RIP  
[<ffffffffa0ca49e4>] :powernow_k8:powernowk8_target+0x461/0x605
[   50.171643]  RSP <ffff81003e8ebdd8>
[   50.171645] CR2: 00000000480c247e
[   50.172063] ---[ end trace 931687b77f3c79c3 ]---
[   50.704019] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -90909024 ns)

Any ideas?

Regards,

Leo





Reply to: