E6550 processor clock control -- which module?

otoomet · 01-16-2008, 12:55 AM

Hi,

I have an ubuntu 7.10 box with E6550 dual-core processor. Which module do I need to control the cpufreq? Currently it reports

Code:

siim@Shiva:~$ cpufreq-info 
cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
Report errors and bugs to linux@brodo.de, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
analyzing CPU 1:
  no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU

I have tried acpi-cpufreq, speedstep-centrino and p4-clockmod without any success. The kernel is

Code:

siim@Shiva:~$ uname -a
Linux Shiva 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

lsmod reports:

Code:

siim@Shiva:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc            12936  1 
rfcomm                 42136  2 
l2cap                  26240  11 rfcomm
bluetooth              57060  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                  10244  0 
button                  8976  0 
ac                      6148  0 
container               5504  0 
sbs                    19592  0 
video                  18060  0 
dock                   10656  0 
battery                11012  0 
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        9612  0 
cpufreq_conservative     8072  0 
cpufreq_stats           7232  0 
freq_table              5792  2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_userspace       5280  0 
sbp2                   24072  0 
lp                     12580  0 
snd_hda_intel         263712  0 
snd_pcm_oss            44672  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17664  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                80388  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0 
snd_seq_oss            33152  0 
snd_seq_midi            9600  0 
snd_rawmidi            25728  1 snd_seq_midi
nvidia               4716468  52 
snd_seq_midi_event      8448  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
ide_cd                 32672  0 
cdrom                  37536  1 ide_cd
agpgart                35016  1 nvidia
snd_seq                53232  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24324  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9228  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    54660  9 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8800  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw               8068  0 
pcspkr                  4224  0 
i2c_nforce2             7040  0 
parport_pc             37412  1 
parport                37448  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
psmouse                39952  0 
i2c_core               26112  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
shpchp                 34580  0 
pci_hotplug            32704  1 shpchp
ipv6                  273892  12 
evdev                  11136  6 
ext3                  133896  4 
jbd                    60456  1 ext3
mbcache                 9732  1 ext3
sg                     36764  0 
sd_mod                 30336  3 
usbhid                 29536  0 
hid                    28928  1 usbhid
usb_storage            73024  0 
libusual               18448  1 usb_storage
sata_nv                20612  2 
amd74xx                15260  0 [permanent]
ide_core              116804  3 ide_cd,usb_storage,amd74xx
ohci1394               36528  0 
ieee1394               96312  2 sbp2,ohci1394
forcedeth              51592  0 
ata_generic             8452  0 
ohci_hcd               22916  0 
ahci                   23300  0 
ehci_hcd               36492  0 
libata                125168  3 sata_nv,ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod              147084  5 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
usbcore               138632  6 usbhid,usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
dm_mirror              24448  0 
dm_snapshot            18980  0 
dm_mod                 58816  11 dm_mirror,dm_snapshot
thermal                14344  0 
processor              32072  1 thermal
fan                     5764  0 
fuse                   47124  1 
apparmor               40728  0 
commoncap               8320  1 apparmor

So various governors are present.

Ideas?
Ott

dtmbmw325i · 01-17-2008, 11:26 AM

Just curious but did you turn the option on in your bios? I think mine shipped off by default. Also for the core duo processors it should be using speedstep-centrino. Does it actually know what kind of processor you have?

otoomet · 01-18-2008, 02:00 AM

Bingo! Yes, it was disabled in bios.

However, it seems not without a reason. Now I seem to be locked into the 600-700MHz cage where I cannot throttle the cpu over 700MHz. There are posts on this topic, the problem seems to be related to bios itself.

This is an nVidia mainboard, I will report details later.

Best,
Ott