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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

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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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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

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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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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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#41 Post by 8-bit »

I think I did, But to verify, I will remove it from the /root/startup and reboot.
Then I will try it again.
I will have to get back to you on that though.
Later....

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#42 Post by 8-bit »

I am back!
It turns out that I must have set up cpu frequency scaling with the nosmp option on. Now it shows 2 cores.
But it also shows "Clock source unstable" as shown

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ processors (2 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
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -63601397 ns)

I do not know if that will affect anything or not.

Anyway, thank you for your time and giving me the idea to check my installation.

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#43 Post by chrome307 »

Hi there

Firstly thanks for the application, I had wanted to try to use this with a Pentium D 2.8hz cpu but have not had much success as it fails to recognse one of the cores.

I'm using a Pentium 4 profile ( can't remember which one ) and it appears to save the settings.

Some help/advice would be appreciated.

Regards

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#44 Post by trio »

chrome307 wrote:Hi there

Firstly thanks for the application, I had wanted to try to use this with a Pentium D 2.8hz cpu but have not had much success as it fails to recognse one of the cores.

I'm using a Pentium 4 profile ( can't remember which one ) and it appears to save the settings.

Some help/advice would be appreciated.

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I can only advise you to:
1. Try with boot parameter with "nosmp" and without
2. Always starts clean (there's a button to refresh modules and reboot)

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#45 Post by Anniekin »

trio,

I'm using the cpu tool in 431.

It only allows me to use "performance" as the scaling governor.

So I would like to disable it and go back to using the manual approach you linked to in your op:
How to keep your cpu cool and your fan quiet

Right now it is overriding the manual commands and will not let me change the settings.

Where are the configuration saved or how can I remove them?

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#46 Post by trio »

niekin,

If you use the latest version, there's a refresh modules button (click then restart)

to do it manually, edit to empty the file /root/Startup/start_cpu_freq then reboot

Ps: do you use pupsave from another puppy install?

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#47 Post by Anniekin »

Yes.

The pupsave file is from Barebones 431 to which I added programs and remastered.

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#48 Post by Anniekin »

What does it mean?

Did I mess up?

Is this bad?

Is my puppy screwed?

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cpu frequency scaling

#49 Post by elraven »

just wanted to drop a line and say ,it's working on my cpmpaq presario 2.5gig rig . It runs nice and smooth in BigMike's Bruno pup , and i can see results by checking the hardinfo .
super nice stuff
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#50 Post by trio »

Anniekin wrote:What does it mean?

Did I mess up?

Is this bad?

Is my puppy screwed?
Ondemand? It's all good

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