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#1 2009-09-14 04:14:03

neodarkness
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Registered: 2009-09-13
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overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

Hi.
I'm new to Arch (3 days), coming from Ubuntu. So please be patient if the answer is easy or if i made some noobness smile.
Ok, here my probem. Actually my 3 problems (I post them together because maybe they are related?).
1. My laptop is experiencing low battery lives
2. It is also overheating (I had this in Ubuntu, but adding acpi=force to the kernel line on grub fixed it. Here what I have on Arch:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/50d0f7b4-f92b-4e61-9af9-852d332cef62 ro acpi=force

3. When I tried to make suspend to ram work (using S2ram) I had this output:

neodarkness@neodarkness:~$ sudo s2ram
mmap: Invalid argument
DMI Table is unreachable
Machine is unknown.
This machine can be identified by:
    sys_vendor   = ""
    sys_product  = ""
    sys_version  = ""
    bios_version = ""
See http://suspend.sf.net/s2ram-support.html for details.

If you report a problem, please include the complete output above.

s2disk works fine.
I'm using open-box by itself. I have a Toshiba satellite a215-s7437 (turion 64x2 processor, 2 gigs ram, internal graphic card, 200 hd )
Here's the daemons I have in rc.xml

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus !network !netfs laptop-mode @crond @alsa @hal @wicd @fam @acpid)

Any help, please? If you need further info, please tell me. I'll be very grateful.
Other than those issues, I found Arch to be much easier to setup than I thought It would and my wireless even works A LOT better than on other distros.

Thanks!

Last edited by neodarkness (2009-09-14 19:05:21)

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#2 2009-09-14 19:36:22

rizzix
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

Cpufreq with powersave governor worked well for me.

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#3 2009-09-15 04:17:02

neodarkness
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

On the other hand, If I force s2ram (s2ram -f) it successfully suspends to ram. Nevertheless, as the wiki said, s2both doesn't work (which is what I actually wanna do)

What bothers me the most is the "DMI not found" message. Can this be the cause of the other problems? Am I doing something wrong with the modules? Should I worry? Do i need to update my bios? Is that a risky thing to do?

Help please.


Edit: My heat problems were some really noobish stuff... sorry. But this DMI thing still persists.

Last edited by neodarkness (2009-09-21 00:51:53)

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#4 2009-11-26 00:22:28

Electrolr0x
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Registered: 2008-01-29
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

neodarkness wrote:

On the other hand, If I force s2ram (s2ram -f) it successfully suspends to ram. Nevertheless, as the wiki said, s2both doesn't work (which is what I actually wanna do)

What bothers me the most is the "DMI not found" message. Can this be the cause of the other problems? Am I doing something wrong with the modules? Should I worry? Do i need to update my bios? Is that a risky thing to do?

Help please.


Edit: My heat problems were some really noobish stuff... sorry. But this DMI thing still persists.

What was that noobish stuff ??? I got the same machine and it's overheating too. Also could you post the output of $sensors ?
mine hangs around 80C

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#5 2009-11-26 02:12:51

neodarkness
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

I had the Cpufrequtils wrongly configured.

$sensors:

k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp:  +51.0°C                                   
Core0 Temp:  +54.0°C                                   
Core1 Temp:  +56.0°C                                   
Core1 Temp:  +43.0°C                                   

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:       +56.0°C  (crit = +102.0°C)

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#6 2009-11-26 08:33:53

Electrolr0x
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

Well, thanks for your reply...

I might be making the same mistake. check it out:

$ sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp:  +73.0°C
Core0 Temp:  +72.0°C
Core1 Temp:  +74.0°C
Core1 Temp:  +71.0°C

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:       +78.0°C  (crit = +102.0°C)

some times it reachs 83°C

Would you help me out to configure it right?
thanks in advance

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#7 2009-11-26 18:28:48

neodarkness
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

Ummm I'm no expert, in fact i'm pretty noobish but i'll try.
My temp actually depends on what i'm doing, so if I am isung heavy video or flash it reaches the 80's.
Why don't you get urself trayfreq and check which gobernor and cpu speed your running in?
Are you sure you have Cpufrequtils properly configured?

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#8 2009-11-28 01:54:12

Electrolr0x
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

All I did was to run theses two steps

#modprobe powernow-k8
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/acpi-cpufreq.modprobe, it will be ignored in a future release.

then

# cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 005: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: powernow-k8
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.90 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.90 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.90 GHz.
                  The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
analyzing CPU 1:
  driver: powernow-k8
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.90 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.90 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance
current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.90 GHz.
                  The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).


and thats my daemons list on rc.conf
DAEMONS=(acpi-cpufreq syslog-ng hal !networkmanager netfs crond fam alsa kdm3 wicd laptop-mode)

What else should i do?
is there anything wrong so far ?
t.i.a

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#9 2009-11-28 02:26:00

neodarkness
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Posts: 31

Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

What about modules?

I have:

MODULES=(powernow-k8 cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave !net-pf-10 !snd_pcsp !pcspkr)

Also, I dont know if it makes any diference, or if your the one who has it right, but I have

cpufreq

in Daemons instead of acpi-cpufreq

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#10 2009-11-28 09:02:05

buddabrod
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Registered: 2007-02-25
Posts: 220

Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

I put

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

into my /etc/rc.local, you can do the same by using cpufreq-set -g ondemand. You might want to checkout if you have power management for your graphics chipset enabled, as well.

Maybe you might want to work yourself through configuring the laptop-mode daemon.

Last edited by buddabrod (2009-11-28 09:02:19)

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#11 2009-11-28 14:07:50

Electrolr0x
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Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

buddabrod wrote:

I put

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

into my /etc/rc.local, you can do the same by using cpufreq-set -g ondemand. You might want to checkout if you have power management for your graphics chipset enabled, as well.

Maybe you might want to work yourself through configuring the laptop-mode daemon.

It did the trick
Although i got a few errors on startup, it probably be some values that i set o MODULE list on rc.conf... just to make sure... could you paste your "MODULE=" list ??


I thank you guys

there it goes :
# sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp:  +53.0°C
Core0 Temp:  +49.0°C
Core1 Temp:  +56.0°C
Core1 Temp:  +49.0°C

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:       +59.0°C  (crit = +102.0°C)

Last edited by Electrolr0x (2009-11-28 14:08:24)

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#12 2009-11-29 09:48:49

buddabrod
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Registered: 2007-02-25
Posts: 220

Re: overheating, dmi not found and low battery life

MODULES=(acpi_cpufreq e1000e snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc \
        snd-pcm snd-hda-intel soundcore ehci_hcd uhci_hcd tp_smapi tun hdaps \
        !yenta-socket !pcmcia-core !garmin-gps !ohci1394 !ieee1394 twofish-x86-64 !twofish \
        vboxdrv vboxnetflt microcode !usblp video kvm_intel)

This is what I put together over the time.

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