Repost: System freeze running powersaved.

Repost: System freeze running powersaved.

[Chris Freyer]

Hello all.

I'm having an issue with a new "silent PC" that I built.  I installed 
SuSE 9.2 Pro without any problems.  But after each reboot, my machine 
locks up within 10 minutes.  Logs didn't provide any meaningful info, 
but there *are* ACPI messages in it.  I googled and learned that 
powersaved might be causing the problem, so I removed it with insserv -
r powersaved, and now it runs fine.  Nearly 2 weeks uptime now.

I'm a little confused about how to resolve this.  What is the 
relationship between powersaved and acpid, apmd, cpufreqd, etc...?  
Which ones do I need?  

FYI:  I have a VIA C3 processor, VIA chipset, and VIA video.  Similar 
in function to a VIA EPIA motherboard, but made by Matsonic.

Any assistance is appreciated.
Chris

Re: Repost: System freeze running powersaved.

[Mattia Dongili]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:34:26PM -0500, Chris Freyer wrote:
[...]
> FYI:  I have a VIA C3 processor, VIA chipset, and VIA video.  Similar 
> in function to a VIA EPIA motherboard, but made by Matsonic.

You might be interested in this thread[1] then, it seems the problem you
reported is similar.

[1]:
http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/private/cpufreq/2004-December/004763.html

-- 
mattia
:wq!

Re: Repost: System freeze running powersaved.

[Chris Freyer]

At 05:42 AM 1/6/2005, you wrote:
> > FYI:  I have a VIA C3 processor, VIA chipset, and VIA video.  Similar
> > in function to a VIA EPIA motherboard, but made by Matsonic.
>
>You might be interested in this thread[1] then, it seems the problem you
>reported is similar.
>
>[1]:
>http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/private/cpufreq/2004-December/004763.html

Thanks for the URL.  It started me down the right path.  Believe it or not, 
the problem was solved by building the kernel from the original SuSE 
sources.  Maybe the kernel (which had been updated by Suse online update) 
was out of synch with the modules (??).  Don't know for sure.  But 
powersaved is working now.

And if it helps anyone, I wrote a script to output the CPU speed every 
second or more.  Have fun with it.

Thanks!!
Chris


#! /bin/bash
# 2004/01/07
# output cpu speed every second or so until terminated.

while [ true ]; do
         powersave -r

         #use this line instead if you don't have powersave
         #grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2

         sleep 1
done

Re: Repost: System freeze running powersaved.

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Friday 07 Jan 2005 05:29, Chris Freyer wrote:
>
> And if it helps anyone, I wrote a script to output the CPU speed every
> second or more.  Have fun with it.
>
> Thanks!!
> Chris
>
>
> #! /bin/bash
> # 2004/01/07
> # output cpu speed every second or so until terminated.
>
> while [ true ]; do
>          powersave -r
>
>          #use this line instead if you don't have powersave
>          #grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2
>
>          sleep 1
> done
>

or you could just:

watch -n 1 powersave -r


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