From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 16:25:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9519316A47A for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michele.heurs@aei.mpg.de) Received: from mailserv.aei.mpg.de (mailserv.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012A413C4CC for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michele.heurs@aei.mpg.de) Received: by mailserv.aei.mpg.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 42456A30CDC; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:25:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserv.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8076A30332; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:25:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from [130.75.117.7] (unknown [130.75.117.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mailserv.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2593BA31DE9; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:25:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45B636EE.40602@aei.mpg.de> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:25:18 +0100 From: Michele Heurs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ariff Abdullah References: <45AF925C.9050104@aei.mpg.de> <20070119223740.GD47713@uriah.heep.sax.de> <45B1579B.7010009@root.org> <45B4EB0A.5070103@aei.mpg.de> <20070123012532.31d605a0.ariff@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070123012532.31d605a0.ariff@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on mailserv.aei.mpg.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems on HP Compaq nx6325 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:25:35 -0000 Ariff Abdullah wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:49:14 +0100 Michele Heurs > wrote: >> Nate Lawson wrote: >> >>> Also, *which* patch are you using from the PR? THere are a few >>> different ones. >> I first tried this patch: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/idlecpu_apic_5.diff >> >> which alone didn't fix the problem. > > You got it all wrong. Apply the patch, set hw.apic.idle_cpu=1 (or 2). > > >> Then I changed machdep.c as described by Ariff: (...) and inserted >> this in loader.conf: >> >> machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0 >> >> Now it seems to work :) > > Backout this one. It'll hurt you much with the increase of > heat/temperature. Thanks for the advice. I have changed loader.conf and returned machdep.c to its initial state and it seems to be working fine. >> P.S.: Can this be merged into 6-stable soon? >> > This violate every sense of proper solution and will be left there > dying alone as a poor man workaround. May I then suggest that the proper workaround as described by Ariff here ought to be documented concisely? Due to its length and complexity the thread under http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104678&cat= is somewhat hard to understand... Thanks again for the help! :) Bye, Michèle -- ********************************************** Dr. Michèle Heurs Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Callinstr. 38 30167 Hannover Germany Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 762 - 5845 Fax: +49 (0)511 - 762 - 2784 Web: http://www.aei.mpg.de **********************************************