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    SubjectRe: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq
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    On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:34:28 -0700, "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> said:
    > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
    > > On Thu, 05 Jun 2008, Kok, Auke wrote:
    > >> This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43)
    > >
    > > Which ThinkPad T43 model and BIOS revision?
    > >
    > > I have a T43 2687DDU with the latest BIOS, and I have never seen
    > > anything like that happening. Is it overheating or something like that?
    >
    > T43 2668NU3 Version: 1YET59WW (1.24 )

    Older version of the planar card, but should be close enough to the
    2687 I have...

    Your BIOS is horribly old, and your EC firmware is very old too. You
    really should upgrade to BIOS 1.29 (1YET65WW) and EC 1.06. Lenovo has
    CDs you can use to upgrade even without Windows. thinkwiki.org has the
    links to the support pages with the downloads.

    After you upgrade, go into the BIOS configuration screen, and set everything
    related to Speedstep and performance management to highest performance. You
    can let the BIOS do BUS power management, and you should let it do screen
    brightness power management, but don't let it mess with the processor speed
    or the disks. It can have bad interactions with Linux power management.

    > hardly overheating:
    >
    > Thermal zone 1 : ok, 49 C

    It is probably a bad interaction from SMBIOS power management with the native
    Linux power management.

    BTW: install thinkpad-acpi and lm-sensors 3.0, and you will be able to see the
    11 thermal zones the EC controls in a T43.


    --
    "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
    them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
    where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
    Henrique Holschuh



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