Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce schreef:
> Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
>
> > Well, I ran 10.0 trough 10.3 without major troubles, so I think the 
> > machine itself is not the first suspect. But in general laptops 
> > indeed have not been the best Linux-runners as far as I know.
> >
> > regards, Jogchum
>
> Same here, I had no problems until 11.0 Alpha0. During the install, 
> the fan would speed up and not long after, the laptop would power off. 
> I also have the laptop sitting on a cooler running at full speed and 
> separately powered.
> It was fine from whatever version of SuSE was around in April 2004 
> right up to openSUSE 10.3. Pop the 10.3 DVD in and it was OK. As a 
> matter of fact, when I changed the hard drive after it failed, I had 
> to install 10.3 instead of 11.0 Alpha, then I upgraded. That's when I 
> noticed the fan sped up with 11.0 Alpha and not with 10.3. It didn't 
> seem to be dependent on the length of time it was powered on.
> It could be software, none-the-less, but I would advise having a close 
> look at temperature while doing something that stresses the CPU.
> Another indication that mine is a heat problem, I set "powersave -f" 
> for a few minutes, it was at 76C, now I have it set "powersave -l" and 
> it's come down. I just remembered, if I compiled a kernel with 
> powersave -f, it would power off part way through.
> These laptops are not easy to get into so I could inspect the heatsink.
> Boycie:/home/boycie # sensors
> k8temp-pci-00c3
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Core0 Temp:  +76.0°C
>
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/boycie
> Boycie:/home/boycie # powersave -l
> Policy set to powersave
> Boycie:/home/boycie # sensors
> k8temp-pci-00c3
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Core0 Temp:  +71.0°C
>
> Boycie:/home/boycie # sensors
> k8temp-pci-00c3
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Core0 Temp:  +69.0°C
>
> Boycie:/home/boycie # sensors
> k8temp-pci-00c3
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Core0 Temp:  +58.0°C
>
> Building a kernel with "powersave -l" and it seems stable at 63C.
> Boycie:~ # sensors
> k8temp-pci-00c3
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Core0 Temp:  +63.0°C
>
> Regards
> Sid.
>
> Regards
> Sid.
OK, so our problems seem related. My proc doesn't support regulating the 
cpufreq (see my answers to Holger), so that's no solution for me:

powersave -l
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: Method 
"SetCPUFreqGovernor" with signature "s" on interface 
"org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" doesn't exist

Could not set CPUFreq policy to powersave.

I think it's time opening a bug here. But for my part that will have to 
be later this afternoon or tomorrow.

Regards, Jogchum
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