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#21 Post by trio »

Mikeb,

I think it's not activated. Did you try the app? I don't think so.

Anyway, my old ibm 570e doesn't have a module that's compatible with it, BUT, after scrolling through BIOS, I found that it can be set from BIOS. Some computers maybe like that.

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#22 Post by mikeb »

I think it's not activated. Did you try the app? I don't think so.
sussed :D well I was trying to determine if I needed it and if I could monitor behaviour if I did

Well I will take the plunge :)

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#23 Post by Patriot »

Hmmm .....
mikeb wrote:.....
Its a HP2133 VIA C7-M cpu .....
I believe this note here may be of some help. The required module is available on retro and std kernel.

Rgds

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#24 Post by mikeb »

Sorry for not replying earlier..I re-read the manual approach thread and pennies dropped...e_powersaver and ondemand loaded and all works as it should :) ..guess i like to get dirty hands.

Are those processors really running at 844mV ?!!

I also have the fan set at 40% min in the bios as it tends to be a bit of a hot potato which is quiet but reduces the need for 100% fan speed.

Cheers all

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#25 Post by ARAN »

Just Installed your Programm in the new 4.3 Release.

The installation proccess was bugfree.
The Programm seem also to work good but i miss the needed Modules
in the new Release for CPU Scalling.

The Possibility to download and install the needed CPU Scalling Modules for the Kernel over the Internet would make this Programm Perfect !

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#26 Post by aragon »

ARAN wrote:The Possibility to download and install the needed CPU Scalling Modules for the Kernel over the Internet would make this Programm Perfect !
?????
everything needed is there by default, what do you want to install? what you need to do is find out, which cpu-driver you need.

this thread might be of help http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28443
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#27 Post by aragon »

@ ARAN :oops: :oops: :oops:
all i can do is apologize!

i've by mistake loaded 4.3 Beta 3 and they are all there. now that i look at 4.3-small in quemu, what should i say, can't find the modules any more, you're right.

maybe someone else should look at this, but seems to be a big bug.

so, again sorry.

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#28 Post by aragon »

now i'm a little wiser.

this is a problem for pup-430-small.iso. the regular one pup-430.iso does contain the modules in the zp430305.sfs. i don't know if it's a bug or by design but i will post it in the bugs-section.

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#29 Post by trio »

Hmm, incomplete modules in 430 small version....

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#30 Post by ARAN »

aragon wrote:now i'm a little wiser.

this is a problem for pup-430-small.iso. the regular one pup-430.iso does contain the modules in the zp430305.sfs. i don't know if it's a bug or by design but i will post it in the bugs-section.

aragon
Hello aragon.

It would be great if somebody could try to boot the official ISO full in to ram and proove if the modules were loaded and copied.

If i remeber right even in the official ISO from ibiblio the modules arent loaded and copied. at least the directory "/lib/modules/..." was empty.

Still thanks a lot for your answer.
It helped me a lot as it prooved that i in my puppy the modules were missed.

Ther is also a bug for some reason in the gui cpu freq scalling tool.

I have only performance at the moment working.
Other people too.

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#31 Post by trio »

Updated - V 1.3 - see main page

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#32 Post by aragon »

- Added refresh module button (you have to reboot after), useful when you use other computer's pupsave file
hi trio,

one question (as a reboot takes time): couldn't this be solved by removing the 'old' modules with rmmod and than setting up the new ones?

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#33 Post by trio »

aragon,

Yes, you are right! Why didn't I think of that, so I need to blank the startup script and rmmod.
Will do that for version update plus a tooltip to give people a brief notification about this

Cheers

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#34 Post by trio »

Aragon,

i have to take back what I post above, using rmmod gives trouble, I can't modprobe the same module. It hangs. It's the safest way to reboot I think
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#35 Post by trio »

Updated to v. 1.3-1: see main post

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#36 Post by trio »

Updated to v. 1.3-2: bugfix - sorting min frequencies not always from smallest

See main post

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#37 Post by 8-bit »

The CPU Frequency Scaling tool is not finding my second processor core.
It reports the CPU as I listed above, but I get the message that it cannot fine a second core or I only have a single core processor.
Is this a glitch?
dmesg shows:

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x11 (2500 MHz), vid 0x9
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xa
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xc
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xe
powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10
powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12

Take notice of (1 cpu cores).

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#38 Post by trio »

8bit:

Do you have a "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1" folder? If not, then it maybe a problem with the module or it is not really compatible with your processor...this app is just a GUI which controls the already built in modules in the kernel

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#39 Post by 8-bit »

I have a cpu0 folder in that path only.
I guess that means my CPU is not truly supported by the underlying software used by the GUI.
I have tried HTOP and it will show two processors only if I remove the "nosmp" from the kernel line of my menu.lst entry for Puppy 431 SCSI kernel 2.6.30.5.

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#40 Post by trio »

8-bit wrote: I have tried HTOP and it will show two processors only if I remove the "nosmp" from the kernel line of my menu.lst entry for Puppy 431 SCSI kernel 2.6.30.5.
Did you try booting without "nosmp" and do the cpu scaling?

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