Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:51:46 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various problems, atapi, acpi (S3), cpufreq (est) Message-ID: <J08dzWNIsbYCIuZfl0P/pyjm0zI@oH%2Bt2k92XYul1K9i1XOUCZFuGbY> In-Reply-To: <4A13DB5D.1070708@omnilan.de> References: <4A12CBE9.5010206@omnilan.de> <9LNvWOs6KnRm5ARvil0CjUiak0c@cgr/Aoyjz11KtFDB23HMnFSn04s> <4A13DB5D.1070708@omnilan.de>
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Harald, Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:28:45PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin schrieb am 20.05.2009 11:28 (localtime): > > Harald, good day. > ... > > Could you, please, provide the output from 'acpidump -dt | grep -i cpu | > > grep -i alias' and your MB model. This may not help to decrease power > > Thanks for your answer and a good da also, Eygene. No problems ;)) > Here's the reqested output, only without alias greped. Since I found a > BIOS updates I also get est0, but like you correctly assumed with > "attach returned 6". > acpidump -dt | grep -i cpu [...] No aliases. Pity, then the mentioned PR won't be able to help you. I could try to glance over the est attach issue if you'll post full dmesg, 'acpidump -dt', 'sysctl dev.cpu', 'sysctl dev.est' and 'sysctl dev.cpufreq'. Regarding the original problem about increased power consumption: you seem to have desktop CPU with only one SpeedStep frequency, but with TCC cycle throttling. This can be easily verified: you should see only one frequency in dev.est.0.freq_settings, but multiple (8, with stepping of 12.5%) frequencies in dev.cpu.0.freq_levels. Throttling is known not to decrease power consumption and your increase of 1W can be attributes as a measurment error (can't say for sure -- statistics and knowledge on how you had measured the consumption is needed). There is good set of notes from Alexander Motin on the power consumption on 8-CURRENT, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/006436.html perhaps this will give you some further ideas. > The motherboard is a GigaByte P35DS4 And you're running the latest known BIOS, aren't you? > I already used cd1 as device, hence the atapicam device. Fortunately I > need the ODD really seldom, but for the last two years I had to boot > another software because none of my drives worked. Am I the only one > with that massive problems? Could the AHCI mode be the culprit? Once I had similar messages with AHCI mode turned on some Asus MBs, so I am turning it off regularily. You can also try just enhanced SATA mode set via BIOS -- it could help. -- Eygene _ ___ _.--. # \`.|\..----...-'` `-._.-'_.-'` # Remember that it is hard / ' ` , __.--' # to read the on-line manual )/' _/ \ `-_, / # while single-stepping the kernel. `-'" `"\_ ,_.-;_.-\_ ', fsc/as # _.-'_./ {_.' ; / # -- FreeBSD Developers handbook {_.-``-' {_/ #
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