From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Flego Subject: Re: ondemand governor hangs up on my Dell 5150 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:53:59 +0200 Message-ID: <46862837.10906@gmail.com> References: <46840176.6050502@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=B3wfMMX+vtBAtojRCvHHwYPNxGwbU+DywcOgyD0RESUg1XPDGXccT3IS5Qs7B1/T/VopWoT5aWCrtqAtdNEuEEaELV/Z1X6wFra+xkeYisJZWAQfF9u9qZGIFS9JBaRGcRyFWCV+who1+/0NLrTObgB4pndQcgRxll/NFuTnz94= In-Reply-To: <46840176.6050502@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk Sorry I didn't provide you with more precise information but I'm still learning... :) I was suggested to post here part of 'dmesg' output where some errors/warnings/exceptions appear: [flego@gardelito ~]$ dmesg |grep -i speedstep speedstep: frequency transition measured seems out of range (0 nSec), falling back to a safe one of 500000 nSec. [flego@gardelito ~]$ dmesg |grep -i acpi ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fdea0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x3fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x3fff0400 ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000047) @ 0x3fff0c00 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ACPI: bus type pci registered ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) ACPI Error (dswload-0333): [SMIX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI Exception (psloop-0285): AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog [20060707] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_PR_.CPU0._PDC] (Node c1903cfc), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI Error (dswload-0333): [GETC] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI Exception (psloop-0285): AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog [20060707] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_PR_.CPU1._PDC] (Node c1903cd4), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (34 C) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. Hope this can help somebody to understand what is the problem on my machine! Thank you very much for your help, Federico. Federico Flego wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm new to this list and I'd like to have your feedback on the following > problem I'm experimenting and which is starting to annoying me very much! > > After compiling a new kernel with cpu frequency scaling capabilities > activated my system execute the following script at boot time: > > echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor > /usr/bin/i8kfan 0 0 (*) > > And finally, I have my laptop quiet and with low battery consuption at > least when I write e-mail read newspaper on line! :) > > The problem is that now and then the computer hangs and there's no way > to reboot it but holding down the power-off button... thus losing any > unsaved data and having to wait for a whole disk error checking at next > boot! :( > > This problem is sort of repeatable, in fact whenever I launch mplayer > the machine hangs up immediately 90% of the times. > > I thought a kernel upgrade can solve the problem, but kernel 2.6.21.5 > didn't fix it! > > Can you tell me whether you experimented similar problem? And how you > solved it in case? Or can you help me to understand what is the possible > cause? > > My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5150 with: > > cpu family : 15 > model : 2 > model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz > stepping : 9 > cpu MHz : 3066.590 > > and os is: > > Linux gardelito 2.6.21.5-ARCH #1 SMP Tue Jun 19 19:43:55 CEST 2007 i686 > Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > > Thank you very very much for any help/hints you can provide... > > > Federico. > > > (*) I found out that if I stop the fan this way at boot time, then it is > started/tuned/stopped depending on cpu temperature, otherwise it is kept > speed controlled but never stopped. >