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From: Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:39:07
Message-Id: d257c3560710100828k5967565cxe07b9b3aa4136351@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU) by Marco Calviani
1 >
2 > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/polling_frequency
3 > <polling disabled>
4 >
5
6
7 thats why i told you to do this commanda:
8
9 > echo "2 seconds" > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/polling:frequency
10 >
11 this enables the polling of your thermal every 2 seconds. this should be
12 enough.
13 do you have the other file that i mentioned:
14
15 > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/trip_points ?!
16
17 this sets the trip points for your processor. whitout it you governor cannot
18 understand what to do even if it polls right.
19
20 as for the kernel thigs, set these options:
21 select processor type: intel core2 instead of normal x86
22 CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y instead of m
23 CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y instead of m
24 CONFIG_MICROCODE=y instead of m (for what i know cpu micocode is needed on
25 intels)
26 CONFIG_K8_NUMA=n instead of y (this should be the amdk8 numa, that you
27 should not need. if it's not then let him be)
28 CONFIG_X86_MCE_AMD=n instead of y (you don't need amd mce features since
29 they are not included into intel cpus)
30 CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 <-- this leaves me a little dazzled: do you really have 32
31 cpus in your core?! for what i know this sets the real number of cpus inside
32 the kernel, but i might be wrong. so if this is really what i think it is,
33 ie the real nr of cpus (not virtual ones) set this to 2 or 4 based on your
34 cpu cores.
35 CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n instead of y (i don't really think that you'll unplug
36 your cpu from your laptop when the laptop is still running considering that
37 you don't use multi cpus but a single multicore cpu. the same goes for
38 memory hotplug: i don't think that your laptop supports it, so just disable
39 it.)
40 for what i have seen the acpi problems may be due to a failure in loading
41 the intel speedstep module. if you look into the modules loaded (lsmod) you
42 should not see it. so it's better to insert it directly in the kernel, since
43 it is one of the first modules called (if you use it as a module you should
44 be loading it with initramdisk before loading acpi to have a full acpi
45 configuration).
46 try setting these options and recompile and install the new kernel and
47 modules and reboot (kexec is not working on my amd turion with 64bit enabled
48 and so may also be for your core2duo).
49
50 2007/10/10, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>:
51 >
52 > Sorry i missed the attachment.
53 >
54 > regards,
55 > m
56 >
57 >
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59
60 --
61 dott. ing. beso

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