deepakdeshp wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:15 pm
If you have another computer with mint installed load it like the examples above and test for frequency drop. It should not drop. Which will indicate that your problem isn't software related. If no other machine with Mint, boot it with live USB and perform the experiment. May be someone on the forum can perform it tOo and post the result.
I booted a live USB on a ThinkPad T450.
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mint@mint:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20BUS1WP00 v: ThinkPad T450
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20BUS1WP00 v: SDK0E50510 WIN
serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: JBET49WW (1.14 )
date: 05/21/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.1 Wh (99.5%) condition: 20.2/23.2 Wh (87.0%)
volts: 12.2 min: 11.1 model: SONY 45N1111 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
status: Not charging
ID-2: BAT1 charge: 15.1 Wh (85.3%) condition: 17.7/23.5 Wh (75.3%)
volts: 12.7 min: 11.4 model: LGC 45N1127 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Charging
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-5300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB
L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2296 high: 2299 min/max: 500/2900 cores: 1: 2296
2: 2295 3: 2296 4: 2299 bogomips: 18356
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Lite-On Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 2-8:5 chip-ID: 04ca:703c class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4")
s-diag: 485mm (19.1")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics res: 1600x900 hz: 60 dpi: 132
size: 309x174mm (12.2x6.9") diag: 355mm (14") modes: 1600x900
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: 3080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a2 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095b class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 2-7:4 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 1000 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 1000
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 260.21 GiB used: 109.14 GiB (41.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7LN256HCHP-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3L6Q scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: STORAGE DEVICE
size: 7.28 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0903 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory
size: 14.45 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 3.74 GiB used: 127.4 MiB (3.3%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
ID-2: /var/log size: 4.87 GiB used: 2.5 MiB (0.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdb3
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C pch: 38.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 2500
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2059
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 21 _Vanessa_ - Release amd64 20220726]/ jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 207 Uptime: 9m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.47 GiB
used: 1.02 GiB (13.6%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.13
I booted from an 8GB SD card in a USB card reader (because I already had an LM installed on that card) and it felt at least 4 times faster than using my VivoBook with LM installed on an SSD '-'
On the ThinkPad there was absolutely no problem with the frequency or with anything.
I didn't take a screenshot, but I did the test with the
yes > /dev/null &
and there wasn't any issue.
I wanted to try to see what if the temperature gets high, but since I just recently cleaned the fan, reapplied thermal paste and this laptop has a really decent cooling anyways, the temperature didn't really go above 42˚C.
So the issue is with this (VivoBook) laptop. Asus probably made it as a "Windows-only" laptop, but I'm certain there is a workaround for this.
Somewhere I've read that basically the governor decides the frequency, the driver passes that decision to the firmware, and the firmware "applies" it.
If I'm correct with this, then I think the issue is driver or firmware related, since the governors work just fine (I can change governors, change then nim and max freq), even when the actual freq. is at 400,
The firmware has been up- and downgraded (now everything is the newest version), never really made a difference
Both the intel-pstate and the acpi-cpufreq driver (depending on which one I use) don't make a difference, is there maybe another diver(s) that I can install and try ?