On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Malcolm Kay <malcolm....@internode.on.net>wrote:
> I desperately need to make some progress on this issue. > > Is it likely that the issue is real rather than hardware > or disk corruption? Earlier releases are operating OK on the same > machine. > > I have now confirmed that: > debug.acpi.disabled=acad button cpu lid thermal timer video > still leaves the system crashing and powering down when idle for > a while. And the more extensive: > debug.acpi.disabled=acad bus children button cmbat cpu ec isa > lid pci pci_link sysresource thermal timer video > does the same. > > I don't really need power management but with acpi disabled the > disks are not visible to the system. > > Are there sysctl variables that can influence this behaviour? > Currently I believe we have: > > hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S4 S5 > hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 > hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1 > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 > hw.acpi.suspend_state: NONE > hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1 > hw.acpi.s4bios: 0 > hw.acpi.verbose: 0 > hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot: 0 > hw.acpi.handle_reboot: 0 > hw.acpi.reset_video: 0 > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 > machdep.idle: amdc1e > machdep.idle_available: spin, amdc1e, hlt, acpi, > > However on the earlier RELEASEs that work I note we do not have > machdep.idle or machdep.idle_available. Instead I find: > machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1 > machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 > > Although I've not been able to relate this directly to my problem > from Googling it seems that there some issues with amdc1e under > BSD, Linux and perhaps Windows. But all the references seem to > amd c1e are related to systems in 64 bit mode while I am running > (or trying to run) i386 so I wonder why I have: > machdep.idle: amdc1e > > Maybe my problem is not acpi as such but this idle mode. > > My thought is to change this to > machdep.idle: hlt > or even > machdep.idle: acpi > > Any comments or ideas please! > > Thank you for your attention. > Is there anything in /var/log/messages which indicates the cause? Can you monitor cpu temp? -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"