Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:41:47 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acpi problems and "stray irq6" Message-ID: <1100137306.7752.4.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <20041110185429.GA3633@nemesis.md.0xfce3.net> References: <20041110185429.GA3633@nemesis.md.0xfce3.net>
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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:54, Gordon Bergling wrote: > Hi folks, > > first sorry for cross posting. I wasn't sure where I should post these > questions. > > I have a new notebook. Its a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7640. Hardware, > if that matters, is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, SiS (somewhat) Chipset > and 512MB Ram. > > This notebook is running a recent 5-STABLE from a few minutes ago. The > bios version of the notebook should be the newest. Its dated on > 09/17/2004. > > At first there is a problem regarding the speed managment of the cpu. > Normally and acpi managed cpu should be controlable of the > "hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state" sysctl. This sysctl doesn't exist. Without > this capability the cpu is all the time running at ~ 800 MHz, which > makes build world not really fast. ;) > > Has anyone an idea how I could enable this feature? > > The second problem is that I get these messages short after the boot: > 'stray irq6' and 'stray irq1'. I had read in the FAQ thats this should't > be a problem, but based on "vmstat -i" the notebook hasn't an device on > irq 6. Thats curious I think. > > The dmesg (normal + verbose), the acpidump and the printed hw.acpi tree > can be found at http://www.0xfce3.net/notebook/ . > > If I could provide more information please let me know. I am very > willing to test patches. ;) > > best regards, > > Gordon I would have to believe that "throttle" only works on Pentium chips. I am using 'powernow_k7' loadable module on my Athlon XP-M and that works excellent. You should be able to google for it, that way you: -- would have most recent version -- would know that I did not provide you with Trojan horse ;) HTH, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.
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