Bug 377809

Summary:	Cannot change CPU Frequency with powersave
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Sid Boyce <sboyce>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Holger Macht <hmacht>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	gp
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Sid Boyce 2008-04-08 00:24:10 UTC

I have just been trying powersave to change CPU speed. Getting a hal error on 5 different x86_64 boxes, 2 laptops (single and dual CPU) and 3 64x2 desktops, 11.0 Alpha3 Factory. Used to work going back a while when tried.
Currently the laptops are running at 800Mhz and the desktops at 1000 Mhz.

# powersave -A
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Could not set CPUFreq policy to dynamic.
barrabas:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc8-git4 # rpm -q hal
hal-0.5.10_git20080319-4

 # rpm -q hal
hal-0.5.10_git20080319-7
tindog:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc8-git4 # powersave -A
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: Method "SetCPUFreqGovernor" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" doesn't exist

liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: Method "SetCPUFreqGovernor" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" doesn't exist

Could not set CPUFreq policy to dynamic.

sepulot:~ # rpm -q hal
hal-0.5.10_git20080319-6
sepulot:~ # powersave -A
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: Method "SetCPUFreqGovernor" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" doesn't exist

liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: Method "SetCPUFreqGovernor" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" doesn't exist

Could not set CPUFreq policy to dynamic.

bumble:~ # rpm -q hal
hal-0.5.10_git20080319-6
bumble:~ # powersave -f
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Could not set CPUFreq policy to performance.

hal-0.5.10_git20080319-6
Boycie:~ # powersave -f
liblazy (liblazy_dbus_send_method_call:97): Received error reply: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Could not set CPUFreq policy to performance.

Comment 1 Holger Macht 2008-04-08 09:33:38 UTC

Does restarting HAL fix the problem?

Comment 2 Sid Boyce 2008-04-08 10:26:37 UTC

Yes it does.
tindog:/home/lancelot # rchal restart
Shutting down HAL daemon                                              done
Starting HAL daemon                                                   done
Loading CPUFreq modules                                               done
tindog:/home/lancelot # powersave -A
Policy set to dynamic

Comment 3 Holger Macht 2008-04-11 12:35:10 UTC

Fixed hal package submitted to stable.