Closed ashon-ikon closed 12 years ago
I don't think the performance and power issues are anything to do with ironhide - they are known issues in Oneiric and in the linux 3.0/3.1 kernels.
Re the performance issue, there are bugs logged about compiz/unity performance in Oneiric, eg https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/861061.
Re the power issue, google the following power-saving boot parameters (ie you can add them to /etc/default/grub's "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" line and then run sudo update-grub and reboot to apply them):
I sincerely I apologise, I have not gotten much time to test all the options. I tried a few and they didn't appear to work.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 pcie_aspm=force"
Sadly this is a development system and I barely have the luxury to shutdown often. I write codes on and off the road, so good battery life is slightly priced to me than performance. Hopefully someday I can go back to 11.04 LTS. Kernel 3 or Unity nor Gnome 3 is there yet for my enjoyment. Everything worked till 11.10. I don't know which distro to move to after 3years with Ubuntu. :(
Thanks greatly rockorequin.
Sincerely,
-iKON
After upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, I began to sense
related info:
~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
U41SV
BASIC TROUBLESHOOTING
~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +55.0°C (crit = +103.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +56.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +52.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +54.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
ENABLE DISABLE bash files...
:~$ grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present rate: 22708 mW
:~$ sudo ironhide-enablecard DON Enabling nVidia card succeeded.
:~$ grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present rate: 30548 mW
:~$ sudo ironhide-disablecard DOFF Disabling nVidia card succeeded.
:~$ grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present rate: 23184 mW
:~$ grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present rate: 23436 mW
This suggests that the card switching works but it's still eats some battery. ANY HELP PROVIDED IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
ironhide-enablecard:
ironhide-disablecard:
Custom Switching Script
Whenever the fan blows too much I made a custom bash file to turn on and turn off the card which makes the card quieter
asusU41X.sh