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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:31:43 -0500
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Evren Yurtesen" <yurtesen@ispro.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: powerd on Sempron 3400+
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0704071131u73acf008mc3d102d1a619312a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4617BF0C.80506@ispro.net>
References:  <4617BF0C.80506@ispro.net>

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On 4/7/07, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I have had the same problem today :)
> acpi_ppc works fine with this processor http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/
> It seems like powerd is using weird mhz combinations. It tried to lower the processor
> speed to 100mhz!
>
> When using ACPI_PPC you can even see the percentage of time at which speed
> your processor ws running.
>
> hw.acpi.cpu.px_supported: 1800 1466 1200 933 666 533
> hw.acpi.cpu.px_usage: 46.03% 1.28% 1.31% 1.23% 1.51% 48.60%
>
> It is sad that acpi_ppc is not yet in ports. Maybe if you report your
> experiences to the author, he can attempt to get it into ports.
>
> Thanks,
> Evren
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi Folks,
>
>   I am trying to get powerd working on a sempron 3400+.  powerd -v
> shows it reducing the clock speed for a short period, and
> then the system either locks up or in once case paniced.
> Sometimes the NIC driver is reporting watchdog timeout, but all
> else is locked up.   dmesg.boot attached.  This is 6.2-stable
> kernel and 6.2-release user land.  Is this expected to work?
> Any suggestions on debugging it?
>
Try adding the following to /boot/loader.conf:

hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"

Scot
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