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#1 2011-05-04 18:59:52

MattSmith
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From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: 2009-02-08
Posts: 108

Possible bug in Nvidia driver? (Issue with Powermizer)

Hi all, I'm having a bit of an issue with powermizer. The other day I realized powermizer was completely not working (at least not the way I want it to, not sure it worked in the first place). The video card seems to be "stuck" in performance mode. After reading up on several things including the arch nvidia wiki. I discovered I could force the clocks down to power save, which is good, but I would prefer adaptive, or at least something like: plugged in performance, on battery power save. I know it specifically states how to do this in the wiki, but it doesn't work for me. The clock speeds change only on the PowerMizerLevelAC settings, no matter if I am on battery or not. Whats more is the nvidia drivers only seem to be able to detect that the acpi state has changed after restarting xorg server, as in it's fixed to AC or Battery until the server restarts.

I don't know whether it's a problem with my xorg conf or I'm just missing something from some lack of sleep or noob related issues. So I included the relevant parts of my  xorg conf. Note, I am on a laptop with an 8600m, up to date driver, i use dual monitors with twin view,acpi is installed correctly.

 Section "Device"
 54     Identifier     "Device0"
 55     Driver         "nvidia"
 56     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
 57     BoardName      "GeForce 8600M GT"
 58     Option         "NoLogo" "true"
 59 #    Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x3333" # something I found looking online from here: http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/
 60 # AC settings:
 61     Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevelAC=0x3" #do I need this stated twice?
 62 # Battery settings:
 63     Option  "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevel=0x3" #do I need this stated twice?
 64 EndSection
 65
 66 Section "Device"
 67     Identifier     "Device1"
 68     Driver         "nvidia"
 69     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
 70     BoardName      "GeForce 8600M GT"
 71     BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
 72     Screen          1
 73     Option         "NoLogo" "true"
 74 #    Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"  # something I found looking online from here: http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/
 75 # AC settings:
 76     Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevelAC=0x3" #do I need this stated twice?
 77 # Battery settings:
 78     Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevel=0x3" #do I need this stated twice?
 79 EndSection

Thanks for you time!


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#2 2011-05-04 22:38:23

Zoide
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Registered: 2011-04-21
Posts: 4

Re: Possible bug in Nvidia driver? (Issue with Powermizer)

Hi MattSmith,

There is my xorg.conf and I have no option about PowerMizer at "Device" section. The PowerMizer runs properly on my pc.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 270.41.06  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-08.nvidia.com)  Mon Apr 18 15:14:00 PDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 260"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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#3 2011-06-02 03:13:42

laloch
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Registered: 2010-02-04
Posts: 186

Re: Possible bug in Nvidia driver? (Issue with Powermizer)

Hi, sorry for reviving this thread, but I've just found that the PowerMizer doesn't work (at least for me) in TwinView configuration. Tested with 270.41.19 and 275.09-beta on nVidia GT218 [NVS 2100M]

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#4 2011-06-02 03:49:40

MattSmith
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From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: 2009-02-08
Posts: 108

Re: Possible bug in Nvidia driver? (Issue with Powermizer)

Sorry to say, the only settings that worked for me was forcing the level, I have not been able to get PowerMizer working correctly in adaptive mode.


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