I have a similar problem with an HP DV3 (dual graphics card) and other laptops. The culprit seems to be the infamous nohz balance code in the kernel, causing a crazy amount of load balancing tick...
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I have a similar problem with an HP DV3 (dual graphics card) and other laptops. The culprit seems to be the infamous nohz balance code in the kernel, causing a crazy amount of load balancing tick...
Very interesting, thanks hawthornso23. This make a lot of sense, I almost forgot about the number of wakeups reported by powertop in the last months.
So a call to nohz_ratelimit in tick-sched.c...
Notebooks overheating with Linux
Anyone else having overheating issues with Linux on notebooks? I own 3 different notebooks equipped with Nvidia, ATI, and ATI + Intel graphic cards.
When I'm using Linux (any distro, including...
Anyway as I said before I don't think it would be worth the trouble. In its present state the new GDM looks more like an alpha release than a finished product. No wonder there are lots of discussions...
Hi towheedm, thanks for your reply.
I saw there was an option in the gdm configuration to specify a different welcome message, at least according to...
Re: PART 1: Customizing the graphics in Grub, Usplash, Xsplash and GDM.
Thanks towheedm! Your guide is very well written and easy to follow. I've been looking for months for info on how to customize the new evil GDM and almost gave up... until someone sent me a link to...
Follow the steps in this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311158
you'll get two .deb files that you can install using dpkg as documented in the guide above
Edit: alternatively...
I have a similar question: does the latest LP diff (linux_2.6.32-14.20.diff.gz) include 2.6.32.8 or is it based on 2.6.32 alone?
BTW I'd like to apply the Grsecurity patch but I guess it would...
Nevermind. I managed to disable automatic standby and the usb drive power management (apm) feature, but the load cycles count keeps increasing...
Anyway, in case you're reading this thread looking...
Any advice for USB HDDs? I own a WD3200BEVT-60ZCT0 that is on Nicedude's list at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795327
hdparm doesn't work with USB drives, is there another way to...
Disabling USB HDD power management / spindown settings
Please help... I'm looking for a way to change the USB HDD spin down time setting, or to disable USB power management altogether.
Basically, my new Western Digital USB HDD spins down too soon and...
Using Ubuntu 10.04 alpha2 here, and I get the same error as OP except for the "clocksource tsc unstable" line.
I agree, a fix would be awesome...
Weird. In my case 9.10 worked fine for a long time.
Now that I'm trying lucid (alpha 2) I suddenly noticed those same hpet warnings:
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
CE: hpet...