Re: [Bug 908670] Re: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in panel_get_strongest_unique_aps()

2012-04-17 Thread Matthew Hessel
I don't know if it is the same thing, but I have been having lots of issues lately due to apparmor blocking gnome. I worked around it by disabling apparmor in the kernel. On Apr 16, 2012 4:45 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: That bug is getting quite some duplicates, Mathieu could

[Bug 827112] [NEW] package python-pyatspi2 2.1.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101

2011-08-15 Thread Matthew Hessel
Public bug reported: ran apt-get update. Error was generated during dpkg installation.. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: python-pyatspi2 2.1.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx

[Bug 827112] Re: package python-pyatspi2 2.1.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101

2011-08-15 Thread Matthew Hessel
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827112 Title: package python-pyatspi2 2.1.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-08-13 Thread Matthew Hessel
Yes, I have the 5100 On 8/12/11, Tamran 760...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: @Matthew: Are you by any chance using the following intel wireless card? Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] One thing I have not seen mention until now, but have noticed is that my laptop is REALLY hot

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-08-11 Thread Matthew Hessel
Yes, you got the right idea. I don't know that it is really dangerous - worst case would be your driver wouldn't load or lock up, a reboot would fix it. My scenario works for the iwlagn driver, I don't know if you have the same hardware. It does make a 2 - 3 watt difference in power usage for

[Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Hessel
@Erwin - not sure if you have this same hardware as mine, but I did find what makes the difference for my laptop. Natty running 2.6.35 kernel, can idle at 18.5 watts - runs ok, but I find that power management screws up my primary drive when it goes to sleep, will not wake up the drive at all,

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-07-18 Thread Matthew Hessel
that is the interesting question. There isn't really a large discrepancy for the most part. Phoronix did a piece comparing ubuntu to windows 7, and they actually were rather close. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=windows_ubuntu_pownum=1 that said, there are a few reasons why

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-07-18 Thread Matthew Hessel
well, I woudn't say negativist, but.. I think the power issue is a bit overblown. even in the inital bug report for this, Natty was like 15 percent more power hungry than the older versions. And - this is not unique to Natty, or Ubuntu.. if you look around there are bug reports for this exact

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-30 Thread Matthew Hessel
I would offer the opinion that this is more like a regression as this exposed a kernel regression as proper aspm handling requires changes to the drivers in the kernel. In the article, it mentions that the windows drivers may have additional bits for aspm functionality, thus overriding BIOS

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-30 Thread Matthew Hessel
Jon- absolutely agree. Only way I can figure this isn't getting more attention is that the majority of datacenters are using enterprise versions of the kernel, which are several versions back and aren't affected yet. Once RHEL version 7 or 8 comes out with 2.6.38 or later, everyone would get a

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-29 Thread Matthew Hessel
Are you using the stock kernel? Or the patched version further up the thread? On 6/29/11, srd 760...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: A slight decrease in power usage, dropping from 33 to 30.5 Watts according to powertop on a Thinkpad R500. Better than nothing, but still a long way from the sub 20

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-10 Thread Matthew Hessel
I did some digging on the lkml forums (hard to add links from the bby) It looks like all of them relate to a series of commits for the kernel IPI process. It looks to be added as a way to load balance processes accross multiple cores in the fair scheduler (CFS) when the kernel is running

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Hessel
@Alex - is the radeon driver the Xorg driver? Using the proprietary fglrx one will probably improve things quite a bit. Power consumption on the open source stack for both amd and nvidia is still quite high. My friend's eepc 1015T dropped about 4-5 watts when I installed the proprietary driver.

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Hessel
Cjcolla - with over 1000 wakeups per second, I would not think there is much chance of the processor entering a sleep state at all. It looks to me like all of the wakeups are from your usb devices, were you doing much with the mouse or anything like that while taking the snapshot? Earlier in the

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-05-23 Thread Matthew Hessel
Yes, I noticed. I compiled up a lucid kernel - 2.6.34, runs fine on natty. Strange thing I see is that the ACPI reported power usage is the same on my laptop, about 19 - 21 watts, yet I get 3.5 hours on that kernel instead of the 2.1 hours on the natty kernel or the 2.6.39 source from the linus

Re: [Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Hessel
It might be a cludge, but a workaround might be to disable the tickless kernel option, multiple core systems and hyperthreading would still work with a slight increase in overhead- at least until this has an accepted patch from the kernel folks. On 5/12/11, nanog 760...@bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-05-10 Thread Matthew Hessel
looks like part of this was noticed back in September. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/30/100 I took the Natty kernel sources and default config and manually applied the diffs from that thread. the load balance thread that keeps waking the kernel drops significantly when idle. - went from 300 or so

[Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-04-30 Thread Matthew Hessel
built latest kernel 2.6.39-rc5 from latest sources and powertop shows normal values for power utilization again. processors show 99 percent C6 mwait residency, full charge battery estimate is up to 3 hours compared to 50 percent C6 mwait and 1.2 hours off a full charge ** Attachment added: