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Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:13 am
by Gaer Boy
Newly-built mITX system. The temperatures are way out - the BIOS gives the CPU at 45-50C.
$ inxi -F
System: Host: annesroom Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2
Distro: MX-14 Symbiosis 22 March 2014
Machine: Mobo: ASRock model: FM2A88X-ITX+ Bios: American Megatrends v: P2.10 date: 01/17/2014
CPU: Quad core AMD A8-6500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
Clock Speeds: 1: 1700 MHz 2: 1700 MHz 3: 1700 MHz 4: 1700 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ATI Device 990e
Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: fbdev,ati,vesa (unloaded: radeon) Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ATI Trinity HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v:: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network: Card-1: Atheros Device 10a1 driver: alx
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: d0:50:99:0e:a6:61
Card-2: Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 54:27:1e:1a:5f:dc
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (10.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sdb model: SAMSUNG_HD502HJ size: 500.1GB
2: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_SP2504C size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 20G used: 2.6G (15%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.99GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 6.2C mobo: N/A gpu: 5.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 158 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 232.2/7012.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.7
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:54 am
by Jerry3904
Looks great. How did you deal with the dual sound cards?
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 11:21 am
by DBeckett
Gaer Boy wrote:Newly-built mITX system. The temperatures are way out - the BIOS gives the CPU at 45-50C.
My APU machine does the same thing.
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Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 6.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 8.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 11:28 am
by Gaer Boy
Give me chance, Jerry - I only finished building it an hour ago, and I haven't connected any speakers yet. There's a few other things to sort out - I'm using the 2 HDDs from an older machine. MX booted fine, but WinXP didn't want to know. Even in safe mode it goes back to the grub screen after 2 secs. I don't need it, so I will get rid of it. First impressions are good, so I will probably add an SDD. Pic attached.
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Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 11:39 am
by Jerry3904
Give me chance, Jerry
Take your time, just wondered...
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 12:18 pm
by uncle mark
Gaer Boy wrote:I'm using the 2 HDDs from an older machine. MX booted fine, but WinXP didn't want to know. Even in safe mode it goes back to the grub screen after 2 secs.
Do you mean it spontaneously reboots? Is that Windows Safe Mode, or the safe boot in grub?
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 12:55 pm
by timkb4cq
The problem is that it87 module that lm-sensors gets the temps from doesn't correctly identify the thermal sensors in the AMD APUs (A8 & A10 series). You can remedy this by forcing the selection when the module is loaded. Try:
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rmmod it87
modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728
That should provide more correct temps.
The sensors that the k10temp module reads for A8 & A10 APUs are internal readings used to balance use of the cores and they do not correspond to real temperatures. I would blacklist that module so those don't show up.
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 9:14 am
by dolphin_oracle
running liveUSB /w persist all weekend.
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demo@mx1:~
$ inxi -F
System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 Distro: MX-14 Symbiosis 24 March 2014
Machine: System: Dell product: OptiPlex 780
Mobo: Dell model: 0C27VV v: A01 Bios: Dell v: A04 date: 04/30/2010
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7500 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1600 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Q45/Q43 x86/MMX/SSE2
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio: Card Intel 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
IF: wlan1 state: up mac: 5c:ac:4c:87:a2:7f
Card-2: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
IF: eth1 state: down mac: b8:ac:6f:4c:a5:66
Drives: HDD Total Size: 258.0GB (1.0% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500AAJS size: 250.0GB
USB ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Cruzer_Glide size: 8.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 976M used: 858M (93%) fs: rootfs dev: N/A
ID-2: /home size: 976M used: 497M (51%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/loop2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 137 Uptime: 3 days Memory: 208.8/3004.1MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.18
demo@mx1:~
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 9:20 am
by Gaer Boy
Jerry3904 wrote:Looks great. How did you deal with the dual sound cards?
The only option in the BIOS is to disable Onboard HD Audio. Whichever way this is set - no sound. Also, I have no volume control in the panel.
After looking at everything else, I installed pulseaudio. The Configuration tab gave me 2 x Built-in Audio Profile drop-downs. The first had Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output only, and the second had a dozen options. I turned off the first and set the second to Analog Stereo Output. Sound fine and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex gave a slightly increased volume. The key to sound was turning off HDMI - with that on, no setting worked.
Phil
Re: Post your hardware specs.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:31 pm
by Gaer Boy
timkb4cq wrote:The problem is that it87 module that lm-sensors gets the temps from doesn't correctly identify the thermal sensors in the AMD APUs (A8 & A10 series). You can remedy this by forcing the selection when the module is loaded. Try:
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rmmod it87
modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728
That should provide more correct temps.
No luck with that, Tim - rmmod it87 gives "Module it87 is not currently loaded" and it doesn't appear to be present on the system.