Ubuntu 9.04 beta on 1024x600 model

[mikez]

I updated the bug report with my opinions - - also nominated it to be fixed in both 8.10 and 9.04

Your added information would have the most effect if you commented on the bug report at the above link.
If you also sent them a corrective patch - that would speed up getting this problem fixed -
I don't have a 1.6Ghz machine to test on - but you do.
- - - -
The reason: Using the VIA specific governor has advantages over using the other governors.

[mikez]

Obviously - either I or someone else was guilty of a typo:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/pr.../c7-m/c7-m.jsp
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-m_ulv/

[mikez]

Found another VIA specific item - hardware crypto is not loaded - -
Add to your module load list in /etc/modules:
via-rng
padlock-aes
# padlock-sha

NOTE: Do not enable padlock-sha in /etc/modules yet - it will break your boot.
You can "modprobe" it from a terminal, the terminal will hang, then enter ctrl-c - -
it will be loaded and running then. (Bug report filed).

That will also pull in three "generic" crypto modules -
Now OpenSSL will find and report the crypto engine.

[Turmlos]

I updated the bug report with my opinions - - also nominated it to be fixed in both 8.10 and 9.04

Your added information would have the most effect if you commented on the bug report at the above link.
If you also sent them a corrective patch - that would speed up getting this problem fixed -
I don't have a 1.6Ghz machine to test on - but you do.
- - - -
The reason: Using the VIA specific governor has advantages over using the other governors.

What is there to patch? e_powersaver works for me, it just doesn't autoload. Come to think of it, I don't think acpi-cpufreq did either. However, I'm not using cpufrequtils and it's associated scripts. Isn't that what Ubuntu uses?

Found another VIA specific item - hardware crypto is not loaded - -
Add to your module load list in /etc/modules:
padlock-aes
padlock-sha

That will also pull in three "generic" crypto modules -
Now OpenSSL will find and report the crypto engine.

How about via-rng?

[mikez]

Not yet in the source -
try the openSSL development head -
it was promised by one of the developers about six months ago now.

Without a bit of prompting, it will not be in 1.0.0 (the renamed 0.9.9 release).

[mikez]

Turmlos @ Please post your information to the bug linked to above - there it will do some productive good.
Posting to this forum, or attempting to start a flame war is not productive.

[Turmlos]

Not yet in the source -
try the openSSL development head -
it was promised by one of the developers about six months ago now.

Without a bit of prompting, it will not be in 1.0.0 (the renamed 0.9.9 release).

I meant the via-rng module... is it being loaded? You can use it with rngd from the rng-tools package.

Turmlos @ Please post your information to the bug linked to above - there it will do some productive good.
Posting to this forum, or attempting to start a flame war is not productive.

I just might post to that bug report once I do a bit more research.

[mikez]

It is not reported as present by
openssl engine
Will put that on my list to check -
but if it isn't loaded, yet present in the distribution - just add that to /etc/modules load-list.

If you are following the threads I am blogging my adventures in - you can see that I am only
doing go/no-go testing right now - will not try to optimize/refine anything until 9.04 is declared "released".

[mikez]

Hmm...
They have a few things to fix this month if they are going to hit their "April" release target:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

[mikez]

I updated the bug report with my opinions - - also nominated it to be fixed in both 8.10 and 9.04

Your added information would have the most effect if you commented on the bug report at the above link.
If you also sent them a corrective patch - that would speed up getting this problem fixed -
I don't have a 1.6Ghz machine to test on - but you do.
- - - -
The reason: Using the VIA specific governor has advantages over using the other governors.

What is there to patch? e_powersaver works for me, it just doesn't autoload. Come to think of it, I don't think acpi-cpufreq did either. However, I'm not using cpufrequtils and it's associated scripts. Isn't that what Ubuntu uses?

Found another VIA specific item - hardware crypto is not loaded - -
Add to your module load list in /etc/modules:
via-rng
padlock-aes
# padlock-sha Don't enable this yet - it breaks your boot

That will also pull in three "generic" crypto modules -
Now OpenSSL will find and report the crypto engine.

How about via-rng?