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DISCUSSION Chris Freyer 3 participants 4 messages Jan 5, 2005 – Jan 7, 2005

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Hello all.

I'm having an issue with a new "silent PC" that I built. I installed SuSE 9.2 Pro without any problems. But after each reboot, my machine locks up within 10 minutes. Logs didn't provide any meaningful info, but there *are* ACPI messages in it. I googled and learned that powersaved might be causing the problem, so I removed it with insserv - r powersaved, and now it runs fine. Nearly 2 weeks uptime now.

I'm a little confused about how to resolve this. What is the relationship between powersaved and acpid, apmd, cpufreqd, etc...? Which ones do I need?

FYI: I have a VIA C3 processor, VIA chipset, and VIA video. Similar in function to a VIA EPIA motherboard, but made by Matsonic.

Any assistance is appreciated.
Chris

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FYI: I have a VIA C3 processor, VIA chipset, and VIA video. Similar in function to a VIA EPIA motherboard, but made by Matsonic.

You might be interested in this thread[1] then, it seems the problem you reported is similar.

[1]:
http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/private/cpufreq/2004-December/004763.html

Thanks for the URL. It started me down the right path. Believe it or not, the problem was solved by building the kernel from the original SuSE sources. Maybe the kernel (which had been updated by Suse online update) was out of synch with the modules (??). Don't know for sure. But powersaved is working now.

And if it helps anyone, I wrote a script to output the CPU speed every second or more. Have fun with it.

Thanks!!
Chris

#! /bin/bash
# 2004/01/07

# output cpu speed every second or so until terminated.

while [ true ]; do
powersave -r

#use this line instead if you don't have powersave #grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2

sleep 1
done

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And if it helps anyone, I wrote a script to output the CPU speed every second or more. Have fun with it.

Thanks!!
Chris

#! /bin/bash
# 2004/01/07

# output cpu speed every second or so until terminated.
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while [ true ]; do
powersave -r

#use this line instead if you don't have powersave #grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2

sleep 1
done

or you could just:

watch -n 1 powersave -r

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