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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: lists@×××××.at, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:52:30
Message-Id: AANLkTik7wSaMQ7BqckU8OPtJRb891jecQf5ske2xZq0f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at>wrote:
2
3 > Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman:
4 >
5 > > 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_*
6 > > 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000
7 > > 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000
8 > > conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance
9 > > 1199000
10 > > acpi-cpufreq
11 > > performance
12 > > 1199000
13 > > 1199000
14 > > <unsupported>
15 > >
16 > > See what I mean?
17 >
18 > I see it but I don't have a solution.
19 >
20 > Maybe some strange limitation within the BIOS of the motherboard?
21 > Ah, you wrote that Win does fine ... so ...
22 >
23 > Do you have the correct CPU chosen in your kernel-config?
24 >
25 > Maybe someone with a core i7 could help out here better than me ...
26 >
27 > google finds me this one pointing at apic:
28 >
29 > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1000132.html
30 >
31 > ?
32 >
33
34 Here are some powertop results I see when compiling world:
35
36 PowerTOP version 1.13 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
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38 Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
39 C0 (cpu running) (100.0%) Turbo Mode 0.0%
40 polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.67 Ghz 0.0%
41 C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.54 Ghz 0.0%
42 C2 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.40 Ghz 0.0%
43 C3 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 1199 Mhz 100.0%
44
45 So it seems like all the CPU Power state is fine internally to the CPU but,
46 it's just that it cannot go to the higher speeds for some reason.
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50 Bill Longman