Re: powerd (cpufreq) problems

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:38:26AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 20. September 2005 10:55 CEST schrieb Bruno Ducrot:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 05:44:04PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 19. September 2005 17:40 CEST schrieb Bruno Ducrot:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:17:06PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I noticed that whenever my notebook (VAIO SRX41p, BETA4) crashed,
> > > > > powerd prints the following error after reboot:
> > > > > acpi_perf0: Px transition to 500 failed
> > > > > acpi_perf0: set freq failed, err 6
> > > > >
> > > > > I can't solve that state, no shutdown/reboot will fix it. _But_,
> > > > > if I boot XP and reboot everything is fine again.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't have problems if I do a clean shutdown and reboot FreeBSD.
> > > > > There seems to be something in an invalid state while powerd is
> > > > > running which powerd corrects at exit.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I provide any useful info to get this fixed? I'm not planning
> > > > > to leave XP on that machine just because I need it to "reset"
> > > > > cpufreq related stuff ;)
> > > >
> > > > Is this one with a PIII mobile and a PIIX4 southbridge?
> > >
> > > It's a PIII LV mobile and i815, I think ICH is not PIIX4...
> >
> > What about ichss then?
> 
> Hmm, how do I "try without acpi_perf and ichss instead"?
> I know these words only from the cpufreq man page which isn't really useful 
> for me since I'm no C coder.
> 

Try to boot with
hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled="1"
and with
cpufreq_load="YES"
in your loader.conf (the later if cpufreq is not compiled in-kernel)

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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