Package: powersaved Version: 0.14.0-7 Severity: normal I have been trying to understand this document:
/usr/share/doc/powersaved/html/Thermal.html It seems out of date. For instance, it suggests ENABLE_THERMAL_MANAGEMENT="yes" but in the comments in /etc/powersave/thermal, "yes" doesn't appear to be an option: # userspace: not supported yet # kernel: the values in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points are # overridden with the THERMAL_*_X values from the # current active scheme see powersave_manual.html # kernel_passive: like kernel, but only thermal zones with a valid # passive trip point defined by BIOS are modified. # off: the kernel's default trip_point values are still active Also, when I set THERMAL_PASSIVE_0 or any of the other temperatures to reasonable values, they are not reflected in the output of "powersave -T", and when the system exceeds these temperatures the CPU is not throttled as I requested by setting either COOLING_POLICY="passive" or COOLING_POLICY="active", and ALLOW_THROTTLING="yes". Also, what is the difference between COOLING_POLICY and COOLING_MODE? The latter is only mentioned once in Thermal.html. Similarly for THERMAL_HOT, what does that do? It is never explained, and only appears in one example: # grep THERMAL_HOT /usr/share/doc/powersaved/ /usr/share/doc/powersaved/html/Thermal.html: <code>THERMAL_HOT_0="90"</code><br> Here is some system information. You can see that even though the temperature has exceeded THERMAL_PASSIVE_0 and even THERMAL_HOT_0, the CPU is still running at its maximum speed. # powersave -T Thermal Device no. 0: Temperature: 55 Critical: 93 Passive: 90 # powersave -x Performance active AC_default_scheme Presentation Acoustic battery_default_scheme Powersave AdvancedPowersave # grep THERMAL /etc/powersave/scheme_performance # THERMAL_TRIP_POINTS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED - DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE # also see the ENABLE_THERMAL_MANAGEMENT variable in the thermal file THERMAL_CRITICAL_0="63" THERMAL_HOT_0="54" THERMAL_PASSIVE_0="45" # grep -i mhz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 1700.000 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq 1700000 # cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal temperatures: 55 45 30 50 32 -128 27 -128 Do the features described in the documentation for this package actually exist? Many thanks, Frederik -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages powersaved depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libc6 2.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcpufreq0 002-5 shared library to deal with the cp ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070627-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.9-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpowersave10 0.14.0-7 power management daemon - shared l ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070627-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages powersaved recommends: ii acpid 1.0.4-7.1 Utilities for using ACPI power man pn grub <none> (no description available) pn hdparm <none> (no description available) pn kpowersave <none> (no description available) pn uswsusp <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
