Fedora Test Days | |
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Power Management | |
Date | 2012-04-04 |
Time | all day |
Website | QA/Fedora_17_test_days |
IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
Mailing list | test |
What to test?[edit]
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Power Management
Who's available[edit]
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Jaroslav Škarvada (jskarvad) / PowerManagement SIG
- Quality Assurance - Jan Ščotka (jscotka)
Note: jskarvad will be available at least during 10:00 - 22:00 (UTC+2) on #fedora-test-day, #fedora-power, #fedora-devel, otherwise he will be on e-mail with non guaranteed response time. He will be also available on site in Red Hat Brno Office at least during 13:00 - 19:00.
Prerequisite for Test Day[edit]
- PM Test Day LiveCD 20120404-1-i686 (md5sum:72f4d13fe18f7fc8ce7ba4d8f6fdc85d) or PM Test Day LiveCD 20120404-1-x86_64 (md5sum:16cac224a03a4467756360cedf6d655f) or an updated Fedora 17 pre-release or you may get nightly composed LiveCD.
- It is possible to convert the LiveCD into LiveUSB by following the How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB instructions. If you convert the LiveCD into LiveUSB it is recommended to create on USB another primary partition that will serve as swap. This is useful for pm-hibernate test case.
- If you attend the event on-site in Red Hat Brno office, there will be prepared bootable USB flash disks, thus you only need to bring your hardware there.
- Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions
- Optional: account on fedoraproject.org if you plan to upload the pm-utils bugreport file. If you do not have one and you do not plan to get it, you can still attend the test day - there are instructions in the appropriate test case(s) bellow how to handle such situation.
Typing convetions[edit]
In the following text commands that needs to be run as root are prefixed by #, e.g.:
# id
means to run id command under the root account. Commands prefixed by $ do not need to be run under the root account.
How to test?[edit]
It is focused especially on suspend, hibernate, power-consumption, LCD brightness control and our new tuned. Some test cases are only for laptop users and it is signalled in test case description field. If you do not have laptop just skip them. You can also skip other test cases (e.g. if you do not have enough time). In this case just leave the columns for skipped test cases blank. Please note that your report will be still valuable even if you do not finish all test cases. The procedure:
- Run test cases bellow.
- Report results to the result table.
Prepare your system[edit]
- Install the public key (in case you would like to verify the PM Test Day support package, otherwise you can skip this step because the public key will be installed automatically with the PM Test Day support package in the next step):
# rpm --import http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-pm-test-day
- Install the PM Test Day support package by:
# yum install http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/pm-test-day-repo/pm-test-day-3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm
- This procedure will also install the public key which will be then used for verification of packages from the PM Test Day repo.
Finally make sure you have all current updates (and temporal fixes) installed by:
# yum update
Known Bugs / Workarounds[edit]
Currently there is a bug in software rendering used by Gnome 3 that affects several users (mostly on older hardware):
- RHBZ #808710 - llvmpipe driver doesn't render correctly on Dell Inspiron Mini 10
If you are affected by this bug and your desktop graphics is broken, try to switch to gnome-fallback mode by:
- Press Alt + F2
- Write gnome-terminal and confirm with Enter.
- Run the following commands in the terminal:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback'
$ pkill gnome
Test Cases[edit]
Testcase | Description | Target | Approx. time required |
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pm-suspend | Tests suspend / resume via pm-utils. | All | 2 minutes |
pm-hibernate | Tests hibernate / resume via pm-utils. | All | 2 minutes |
pm-bugreport | Tests pm-utils bug-reporting functionality. | All | 2 minutes |
pm-powersave | Tests detection of AC / battery (upower functionality) and pm-powersave reactions to power source changes (pm-utils). | Laptops | 1 minutes |
Lid close | Tests system reaction to lid close. | Laptops | 1 minutes |
Backlight control | Tests LCD backlight control. | Laptops | 1 minute |
Tuned | Tests tuned-adm (tuned) basic functionality. | All | 5 minutes |
Tuned disabled idle | Measures power consumption of machine in active idle with tuned disabled. | Laptops or users with wattmeter | 15 minutes |
Tuned powersave idle | Measures power consumption of machine in active idle with tuned laptop-battery-powersave profile. | Laptops or users with wattmeter | 15 minutes |
Test Results[edit]
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component pm-utils, or tuned. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link kelto your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line. bugreport.txt will be generated by test case pm-bugreport, instructions for uploading are included in this test case. The bugreport.txt gives us valuable information about your HW / SW configuration and debug log of your last suspend / hibernate process.
User | Smolt Profile |
pm-suspendr | pm-hibernate | pm-bugreport | pm-powersave | Lid close | Backlight control | Tuned | Tuned disabled idle | Tuned powersave idle | References |
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Sample User | Sample Machine | 4.800 Wh | 4.710 Wh | ||||||||
Renault | HP Elitebook 8560w | 5.742 Wh (15.820 V) | 5.889 Wh (15.875 V) | ||||||||
filbar | HP 530 | 2.361 Wh (14.758 V) | |||||||||
slaznick | Acer Aspire One 753 | ||||||||||
KAOS | GIGABYTE | 4.800 Wh | 4.710 Wh | ||||||||
Sagitter | Acer Aspire 6930G | 5.987 Wh | 4.806 Wh | ||||||||
Pavol Celuch | HP Compaq 6730b | 4.170 Wh (12.053 V) | 4.171 Wh (12.090 V) | ||||||||
mkrizek | Lenovo Thinkpad W510 | 7.385 Wh (12.330 V) | 8.341 Wh (12.340 V) | ||||||||
cashm | ACER Aspire 5830TG | 3.722 Wh | 3.643 Wh | ||||||||
User: Rmarko | Lenovo X200 | 2.940 Wh | 3.240 Wh | ||||||||
tomxi | ASUS N53SV | 6.589 Wh | 6.721 Wh | ||||||||
jpospisi | ThinkPad T420s | 4.451 Wh | 4.302 Wh | ||||||||
Jozef Celuch | Asus U80V | 8.294 Wh | 3.575 Wh | ||||||||
Dee'Kej | ThinkPad T420 | 5.460 Wh [4] | 5.190 Wh [5] | ||||||||
Jan Kelbich | [5] | 6.770 Wh | 3.100 Wh | ||||||||
kvolny | Lenovo B570e |
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garretraziel | Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 |
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garretraziel | Hp mini 5103 | ||||||||||
vicodan | Virtualbox VM | ||||||||||
kamila | Acer Aspire One ZG5 | ||||||||||
Hujon | MacBook Air 2010 | 5.510 Wh | 5.060 Wh | ||||||||
Dominik Macejovsky | Asus U41SV | 4.800 Wh | 4.710 Wh | ||||||||
Hando-B_I_R | MSI CX620[1] | 8.455 Wh (11.442 V) | 7.134 Wh (10.842 V) | ||||||||
Hando-B_I_R | MSI EX610X[1] | ||||||||||
Michal Ovciarik | Thinkpad T420i [long 9] | ||||||||||
Ondrada | Lenovo ThinkPad R61i | ||||||||||
kuku.mp3 | Lenovo ThinkPad T400 | Result: 3.870 Wh | Result: 3.770 Wh | ||||||||
Palast | ASUSK72D | Result: 7.477 Wh | |||||||||
Vlado Jendrol | HP Pavilion dv6000 | ||||||||||
amelentev | HP dv6-6153cl | ||||||||||
Adam Vrba | ThinkPad R500 | 7.440 Wh | 5.890 Wh | ||||||||
Jiri Eischmann | ThinkPad T400s | 2.690 Wh | 2.650 Wh |
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Jiri Eischmann | ThinkPad X201 | 3.651 Wh (12.593 V) | 3.625 Wh (12.459 V) |
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Michal Ambroz | HP EliteBook 6930p | 3.746 Wh (11.707 V)[long 11] | 3.846 Wh (11.799 V), retest: 3.701 Wh (11.865 V) [long 12] | ||||||||
Emily Dirsh | ThinkPad X220T | 3.807 Wh (12.403 V) | 3.721 Wh (12.200 V) | ||||||||
Jakub Jedelský | Lenovo 3000 N200 | 3.907 Wh | 3.907 Wh [4] | ||||||||
msimon | Lenovo T410 | 5.668 Wh (12.164 V) | 5.802 Wh (11.964 V) | ||||||||
Jiri Eischmann | Dell Inspiron Mini 10 | 1.920 Wh | 2.020 Wh | ||||||||
Jiri Eischmann | ExoPC tablet | 2.452 Wh (7.150 V) | 1.931 Wh (7.076 V) | ||||||||
Bookwar | Acer Aspire 1810T | 3.558 Wh (11.120 V) | 3.394 Wh (11.020 V) |
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Alexander | Desktop | ||||||||||
Tadej Janež | HP EliteBook 8530p[1] | 7.804 Wh (15.302 V) | 6.318 Wh (14.718 V)[long 13] | ||||||||
Endre "Hřebíček" Bálint-Nagy | Fujitsu ESPRIMO P5916 | does not wanted to recognise my e1000e network card, used an other kernel for this test | |||||||||
Tadej Janež | HP EliteBook 8460p | 7.276 Wh (11.794 V) | 5.067 Wh (11.312 V) | ||||||||
David Harmanec | Lenovo ThinkPad R400 | 3.160 Wh | 3.040 Wh | ||||||||
David Harmanec | Lenovo IdeaPad S205 | 2.930 Wh | 2.750 Wh | ||||||||
David Harmanec | IBM ThinkPad T43 | 4.910 Wh | 4.910 Wh [3] | ||||||||
Jaroslav Škarvada | Dell Latitude D620[1] | 6.266 Wh [5][6] | 5.9195 Wh |
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Jaroslav Škarvada | Asus EeePC 1000H | 2.264 Wh (7.730 V) | 2.253 Wh (7.588 V) | ||||||||
Jaroslav Škarvada | Lenovo T410 | 3.623 Wh [3] | 3.531 Wh | ||||||||
Jaroslav Škarvada | Lenovo T500 | 3.210 Wh | 3.070 Wh | ||||||||
Jaroslav Škarvada | Gigabyte M56S-S3 | 25.000 Wh | 25.000 Wh | ||||||||
Jaroslav Škarvada | Jetway P4XFA | 19.095 Wh | 18.379 Wh | ||||||||
User | Smolt Profile |
pm-suspend | pm-hibernate | pm-bugreport | pm-powersave | Lid close | Backlight control | Tuned | Tuned disabled idle | Tuned powersave idle | References |
Long comments[edit]
- ↑ While changing the LCD backlight power, after repeatedly pressing the keys in either of the edges of the light power settings and then going back the other direction (to the opposite light power edge), the backlight power skips back sometimes.
- ↑ Tuned service start stopped by SELinux. Bug809294 Fixed on selinux-policy-3.10.0-110.fc17.noarch
- ↑ Booted from LiveUSB with 6GB swap partition on it. No problems resuming from hibernation. I only had to manually choose to boot from the LiveUSB again.
- ↑ After hibernate during wake up phase was restoring desktop on the firrst console (F1) not correctly (incomplete decoration of windows) and blocking the keyboard (I can only switch the konsole (Fx), but not any othes actions.)
- ↑ the system tried to boot from harddrive, not from the liveusb, and I was unable to change that (only after booting from harddrive and rebooting again, the multiboot menu got accessible again - but the hibernated stated was gone, obviously)
- ↑ I got some SELinux denials (bugs #809836 #809837 #809838)
- ↑ Works after changes in gnome config: gconftool-2 --set --type boolean "/apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/enable" false;sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean "/apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/enable" false
- ↑ at one touch of backlight down, steping to min backlight, and at one touch backlight up, steping to max backlight(time of stepping aproximatly 4 seconds)
- ↑ Power consumption was too high (14w-17w), to fix it i used flags: i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 pcie_aspm=force , now it's 9w-12w
- ↑ 3xOK,1xFail hibernating from Personal Menu - abrt redirected to RHBZ #713687 , but I am not sure whether this is the right place. I believe it has got something to do with changing number of displays between hibernate and wake-up.
- ↑ was having syntax errors in the script and I had to uninstall an install the pm-test-day-3-1.fc17.noarch package again to get updated version. In such situations version shuld probably bump.
- ↑ Probably in first tuned-powersave measurement was affected by the running firefox in the background, second retest without firefox showed some decrease in power comsumption.But as the difference is approximately only 01% I would blame it on statistical error of the measurement.
- ↑ I performed two measurements one after another and got two slightly different results: 5.979 Wh (14.837 V), 6.657 Wh (14.599 V); the entry in the table represents the average
- ↑ Pressing the Fn+Brightness keys doesn not work: RHBZ #810616. Also, Gnome control center does not offer brightness control: RHBZ #810584 and Brightness level indicator is not shown when changing brightness: RHBZ #810127
- ↑ SELinux AVC denial that was already reported in RHBZ #809832, switching tuned profile also triggered SELinux AVC denial: SELinux is preventing sysctl from getattr access on the file /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
- ↑ SELinux AVC denial that was already reported in RHBZ #809832, switching tuned profile also triggered SELinux AVC denial: SELinux is preventing sysctl from getattr access on the file /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
- ↑ SELinux AVC denial that was already reported in RHBZ #809832, switching tuned profile also triggered SELinux AVC denial: SELinux is preventing sysctl from getattr access on the file /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
- ↑ I had encrypted swap, I had to create unencrypted swap and also encountered RHBZ #813899, RHBZ #813900, RHBZ #813904 but worked correctly.