Toshiba Tecra A5: problem with throttling

[Gabriele Gamba]

Hello,

When running setgetthrtl, I get indication that it should work:

[c:\scrivania]setgetthrtl

Searching processors

Processor [CPU0]

ProcId?: 0x0 P_BLK: 0x1010 P_BLK len: 0x6

Possible for throttle setting Processor [CPU1]

ProcId?: 0x1 P_BLK: 0x1010 P_BLK len: 0x6

Possible for throttle setting CPU0 throttling is disabled CPU1 throttling is disabled

But when I try to set different performance, I get an error:

[c:\scrivania]setgetthrtl 0 20

Trottling set error rc=65283

This is with acpi-20081002.zip

[pasha]

Try attached .exe

[Gabriele Gamba]

Still the same error:

[c:\scrivania]SetGetThrtl.exe 0 10

Trottling set error rc=65283

with 27/10/08 14.316 SetGetThrtl.exe

[eco]

e-co:

is it necessary remove old SetGetThrtl.exe, etc from ecs\bin ?

[Gabriele Gamba]

[c:\scrivania]setgetthrtl 0 20

Trottling set error rc=65283

No change with ACPI 3.14 and

11/11/08 21:30 14.316 SetGetThrtl.exe

[eco]

e-co:

Pasha: try SetGetThrl 0 50 и

if RC, if works, then show copy acpica$ acpi.log

[Gabriele Gamba]

ACPI29012009.ZIP still doesn't work.

[c:\scrivania]SetGetThrtl 0 50 Trottling set error rc=65283

acpi.log attached

[Gabriele Gamba]

acpi.log with ACPI29012009.ZIP

[Gabriele Gamba]

Question: is SMP kernel needed for throttle to work?

Anything special that should go in AcpiD.cfg?

[pasha]

SMP kernel don't need. Check all SetGetThrtl at your disk (from PATH). I see some error in your log. What is battery?

[Gabriele Gamba]

Sorry, there is only one SetGetThrtl.exe on the disk and it is:

11/11/08 21:30 14.316 0 SetGetThrtl.exe

I've seen the error too, but I don't understand it. Battery is ok, CRC alarm for low battery works fine!

[Gabriele Gamba]

Log from AcpiBattery.exe

[pasha]

Please download experimental ACPI build from Mensys site:

• Experimental build for you:

ACPI-APIC-BAT.ZIP

• Read instructions: ​http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=testcase

[Gabriele Gamba]

copy acpica$ acpi.log with ACPI-APIC-BAT.ZIP

[Gabriele Gamba]

Hi Pasha,

no luck, still "Trottling set error rc=65283".

In the log file there are still the errors... the log file is attached as acpi.2.log.

[pasha]

acpi-thrtl.zip, need log

[Gabriele Gamba]

acpi.log with ACPI-THRTL.ZIP

[Gabriele Gamba]

Pasha, log file attached as acpi.2.log.

Still the same error. I noted in the log the line:

"SetThrottling: ProcID 0 num:0"

Is it right?

Thanks for the effort!

Gabriele

[Gabriele Gamba]

Ops, I mean attached as acpi.3.log!

[pasha]

acpi-thrtl1.zip need log

[pasha]

Replying to ggamba:

Pasha, log file attached as acpi.2.log.

Still the same error. I noted in the log the line:

"SetThrottling: ProcID 0 num:0"

Is it right?

Yes. But SetThrtl must say rc=0. So be find where is problem

[Gabriele Gamba]

acpi.log with ACPI-THRTL1.ZIP

[Gabriele Gamba]

Here we are, acpi.4.log attached. The log ends with:

SetThrottling: ProcID 0 num:0

SetThrottling: ret status = 0x1A9

[pasha]

Sorry, my eyes is very bad ;-)

* Throttl Width 0 Offset 1

This say, that your computer don't support throttling. But you very help for check return values. Thanks. In next version be return AE_NOT_EXIST and be checked in program for this.

[Steven Levine]

Gabriele, please test 3.15 when it is released and verify that the lack of throttling support is reported correctly. Thx.

[eco]

e-co:

Hello Gabriele

I missed something, does throttling work fro your notebook on W4 kernel?

[eco]

e-co:

Pasha repeats that no throttling for this notebook

• look at line from log
• no throttling in Win/Lin and eCS, doesn't depend on SMP or W4 kernel

[Gabriele Gamba]

I want to test at least setgetstate, that currently doesn't work anymore, probably due to SMP kernel, so I have in program to change the kernel.

At that point, I can test also setgettrhtottle, no problem!

[Gabriele Gamba]

Replying to stevenhl:

Gabriele, please test 3.15 when it is released and verify that the lack of throttling support is reported correctly. Thx.

Hi Steven, this is with acpi-20081203.zip:

[c:\scrivania]setgetthrtl 0 20

Searching processors

Processor [CPU0] id:0 Possible for throttle setting

Processor [CPU1] id:1 Possible for throttle setting

Trottling set error rc=65283

Is this message correcting reporting that throttling is not available?

[David Azarewicz]

This ticket is really old and for an unsupported version. A lot has changed since this ticket. Have you tried the current version? The power manager in the Daemon will tell you if there are any controllable CPUs. Do not use the old setgetthrtl program.

[Gabriele Gamba]

The laptop is not available anymore! Please close the ticket.