g2rp Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 hi, I've loaded the extension sucesufuly, and I can get the frecuecys without any problem, but when I try to change the speed, I get a kernel panic I'm running Leopard 10.5.5 on an MSI Wind clon, a Medion Akoya. Is there any solution? Thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaze Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 hi, I've loaded the extension sucesufuly, and I can get the frecuecys without any problem, but when I try to change the speed, I get a kernel panicI'm running Leopard 10.5.5 on an MSI Wind clon, a Medion Akoya. Is there any solution? Thanks a lot /dude could you provide a little more details about the context? What ext are you talking about ? CoolBook works great, no idea what u r talking about... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 hi, I've loaded the extension sucesufuly, and I can get the frecuecys without any problem, but when I try to change the speed, I get a kernel panicI'm running Leopard 10.5.5 on an MSI Wind clon, a Medion Akoya. Is there any solution? Thanks a lot Please post a pic of the kernel panic. Thanks! BTW why are you using it on an Atom CPU? I don't think it's worth the hassle as the atom uses barely 7W at full throttle. /dude could you provide a little more details about the context? What ext are you talking about ? CoolBook works great, no idea what u r talking about... Hey, this forum is for the IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext so you can assume the OP is talking about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g2rp Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 I've looked into the logs, and I could not find any information about the kernel panick. I just try to change the speed by the sysctl and I get the black screen that teels me to reboot. How can I make a repoort more specific? It's tre that the cpu uses very low vat, but If intel put speedsteep on it. I've a tiny 3 cell batt and I dont wat the cpu to get hotter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacaman1 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 i have the same problem when i am lunching the DCPU manager i get a freeze screen and i must restart i have the same hardware Msi wind on a leo4all upgraded to 1.5.5 and using a voodoo kernel Sacaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Reboot with bootflag -s Then type sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext Try to switch frequency using sysctl. When it panics you'll be able to see the message. Take a photo of it and post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g2rp Posted October 12, 2008 Author Share Posted October 12, 2008 If I boot with the -s flag, I load the kext and it says: kextload: /Sys... loaded successfully IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO Initializing version 1.3.2 ... IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO On your processor, voltages cna be changed in 12.5 mV steps IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: WARN there was an error while getting PState arrayt fron ACPI. Please create your P-State table manually #sysctl kern.cputhrottle_freqs second level name cputhrottle_freqs in kern.cputhrottle_freqs is invalid #sudo sysctl -w kern.cputhrottle_curfreq=YYYY second level name cputhrottle_cpufreq in kern.cputhrottle_cpufreq is invalid So, what can I do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralafiti Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 got the same problem with my msi wind (10.5.5, voodoo 9.5 kernel - beta 1) Reboot with bootflag -s Then type sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext leads to "WARN There was an error while getting PState array from ACPI. Please create your P-State table manually." Try to switch frequency using sysctl. When it panics you'll be able to see the message. Take a photo of it and post it. doesnt work: "second level name cputhrottle_freqs in kern.cputhrottle_freqs is invalid" when i'm booting osx normally, using the same command leads to "kern.cputhrottle_freqs: 800 1067 1333 1600" *edit* g2rp was faster ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Ok first off, are you trying to switch to 800 MHz? If yes, try to switch to 1067 or 1333 instead. <1GHz is a bit problematic on some setups. Second, I really need the kernel panic message so I know what the error is - so try to find some way to get that. Like look at the system.log file or something .. Third, edit the kext's Info.plist and set Kernel Features to 0. Then delete Extensions.mkext and reboot. See if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralafiti Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 tried it with 800, 1066 and 1333 system.log 13.10.08 12:25:56 sudo[157] nuddelmaddin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users nuddelmaddin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.cputhrottle_curfreq=1333 13.10.08 12:26:53 kernel npvhash=4095 13.10.08 12:26:41 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed. searched for the panic.log which should be in /Library/Logs/, but there isn't one :-( nvram -p gives me the message that my system doesn't support nvram. changed Kernel Features from -1 to 0 but got still the kernel panic update found a way to get a log - if you boot with "debug=0x100" the graphical panic-you-need-to-restart-image is disabled and you get the text on your display if you need it, i would type the whole thing into a file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercurysquad Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Awesome. This is enough information for now, thanks! I didn't remember about the debug flag. Update: I need the output of sysctl kern | grep throttle. Also, could you edit Info.plist and set DebugMessages to <true/>, then just after booting up, type this and copy the output: sudo dmesg | grep IntelEnhanced After that, try switching freq. It will panic, but hopefully it will have saved some info in /var/log/system.log just before panicking. If it's there, please paste the relevant part as well. The problem seems to be at the moment where we write the new p-state control to the processor. According to Intel docs, this will happen only if the pstate we are writing (frequency and voltage) is invalid. So I'm trying to figure out why it's invalid on an Atom, which should follow the same convention as any other Intel processor with speedstep support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralafiti Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 if you need more information, just ask. and many thanks for your work. update here the additional information sysctl kern | grep throttle kern.exec: unknown type returned kern.cputhrottle_curfreq: 1600 kern.cputhrottle_curvolt: 1162 kern.cputhrottle_freqs: 800 1067 1333 1600 kern.cputhrottle_factoryvolts: 900 987 1075 1162 kern.cputhrottle_ctl: 3108 sudo dmesg | grep IntelEnhanced IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO Initializing version 1.3.2 © Prashant Vaibhav IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG FSB = 133 MHz IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Probing for Intel processor... IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Supported Intel processor found on your system IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Processor Family 6, Model 44 IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Starting IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO On your processor, voltages can be changed in 12.5 mV steps IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Using data from CPU0 IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG Found 4 P-States IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG P-State 0: 1600 MHz at 1162 mV, consuming 2 W, latency 10 usec IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG P-State 1: 1333 MHz at 1075 mV, consuming 1 W, latency 10 usec IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG P-State 2: 1067 MHz at 987 mV, consuming 1 W, latency 10 usec IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: DBG P-State 3: 800 MHz at 900 mV, consuming 0 W, latency 10 usec IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO Using 4 PStates. /var/log/system.log just before panicking coudn't find anything relevant :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g2rp Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 I'm still here, but nuddelmaddin is so fast... I tried. Frist I edited plist.info, debug mode true, kernel features 0. Reboot whit the debug=0x100 flag. sysctl kern | grep throttle result exactly the same sudo dmesg | grep IntelEnhanced IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO Initializing version 1.3.2 © Prashant Vaibhav IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO On your processor, voltages can be changed in 12.5 mV steps IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO Using 4 PStates sudo sysctl -w kern.cputhrottle_curfreq=1333 And a kernel panic like the photo of nuddelmaddin and nothing util in system.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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