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Date:      Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:11:30 +1100
From:      Tony Maher <anthony.maher@uts.edu.au>
To:        Milan Obuch <current@dino.sk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell D810/FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE/interrupts??
Message-ID:  <440B6212.7020909@uts.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <200603031142.51384.current@dino.sk>
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Hello,

Milan Obuch wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 11:19, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>>On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Anthony Maher wrote:
>>
>>>In /etc/rc.conf, commenting out the following solved the problems.
>>>
>>>###performance_cx_lowest="LOW"
>>>###economy_cx_lowest="LOW"
>>>
>>>sorry for the noise.
>>
>>  It's not a noise, it's a real problem. My ASUS M5A notebook (Intel
>>Pentium M CPU model 750 1.86GHz), usually quite fast machine, becomes
>>dead slow if I leave now-default settings *_cx_lowest="LOW". Every
>>keystroke takes almost second to get echo on idle machine. I understand,
>>ACPI developers want to test non-C1 cx states, that's why default
>>settings have changed. But with this level of performance everybody will
>>just switch back to C1.
> 
> Could you eventually try another Cx state? I have similar trouble with VIA 
> Samuel based system, available states are C1, C2 and C3. LOW means C3, but 
> this is terribly slow and unusable, in effect. C2, set via sysctl works well.
> I think ACPI developers would like to know our experiences.
> Regards,
> Milan

Only state C1 works correctly.
C2/1 C3/85 (and C4/185) all make emiclock behave badly. I did not
bother to test shutdown for C2/C3 states.
This behaviour did not happen under 5.4->

cheers
--
tonym



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