11.1 rc1 64 bit is installed and running, but as with all 11.1 beta versions the installation took over 4 hours. It is very slow, and the cooling fan runs at full speed constantly. According to svstem monitor only Firefox, ksysgaurd, konquerer, and plasma are creating cpu load, but when I change windows the cpu runs at 100% load. Opening any program takes all cpu resources and takes a long time till opened. According to My Computer the cpu speed is 800 Mhz.
Eddie
(HP Compaq 6715s, Turion 64x2 2GHz, ati Radeon X1200 series, 2GB RAM, using an USB hard drive for beta version)
You have a 2GHz 2x and are showing 800MHz which is probably the cpu’s idle speed. They all start at that & pick up as the BIOS data are read into the OS at boot. What we are looking for is:
type “dmesg” in a terminal and look for something similar to mine here:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x15 (2900 MHz), vid 0x8
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x14 (2800 MHz), vid 0x9
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x12 (2600 MHz), vid 0xb
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xd
powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xf
powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x11
powernow-k8: 6 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12
BTW, it has to be turned on in BIOS for the OS to read it.
Do you have something similar?
Check and see if you have the Kpowersave icon in the toolbar
if so right click it and set the performance parameters.
if not, install the powersave rpm.
I recommend “performance” & cpu freq policy as “dynamic”.
Using that, my AMD 5600+ idles @ 1000MHz & kicks right up to 2900MHz whenever a load is detected.
Mess around with that & see if you can get the cpu to ramp up with a load (open the icon & watch it as you run a real load app, or 3 or 4).
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x11
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x12
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x13
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x1e
Kpowersave is set as you described (default setting?), and shows processors 1&2 running at 800Mhz, the bar is about 40% and doesn’t change. Fan still running at full speed.
Thanks for the ideas, I am open for any new ones.
Eddie
(HP Compaq 6715s, Turion 64x2 2GHz, ati Radeon X1200 series, 2GB RAM, using an USB hard drive for beta version)
Just checked dmesg and kpowersave on my running system that uses 11.0 (only the hdd is different), they are identical to 11.1 rc1. Under 11.0 the cpu works dynamicaly, speeding up as needed, the fan hardly runs.
The basic system is the same notebook. The system I work with, 11.0, is installed on the internal hard drive, the test system, 11.1, is installed on an external hard drive. I connect the external HD via a usb connection, boot and select 11.1. So there are no diferences in the bios. I will reinstall 11.0 on the external HD, try to update to 11.1 and see what happens.
Installed 11.0 on the external HD, took about 35 minutes, works perfectly. Downloaded 11.1 again and updated from 11.0 to 11.1, problems start as the basic drivers are loaded for the installation. Fan goes into hi speed mode, and judging from the speed of the installation the cpu speed goes down. After 4 hours update finished. As before the system is very slow, kpowersave shows the cpu speed at 800Mhz, and it does’nt change, cpu load goes to 100% when an application is started.
Decided to experiment, and replaced /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-8-default/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/with the file from 11.0 lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq, and the same with /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-8-default/kernel/drivers/acpi. 11.1 now runs much faster, and the fan is not running at hi speed. However, I must have corrupted something else (maybe during the update) as I can’t see kpowersave, networkmanager, updateapplet along withother applications, although when I try to start them from a terminal I get "…is already running.