JoaoBR schrieb: > On Saturday 28 July 2007 07:10:21 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >> JoaoBR schrieb: >> >>> On Saturday 28 July 2007 04:21:39 Michael Nottebrock wrote: >>> >>>> JoaoBR schrieb: >>>> >>>>> On Friday 27 July 2007 12:31:55 Nate Lawson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> JoaoBR wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> when I enable powerd with default flags (and any other also) the >>>>>>> computer freezes some seconds after powerd is started. It does not >>>>>>> reach login. Nothing in the logs. This is with amd 5000 X2 Am2 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When i stick into the same computer a 4600 or 4200 it runs fine and >>>>>>> smooth. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I thought it is MB related and did the same and again the 5000 cpu >>>>>>> freeze, the smaller ones not. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any idea what I should do? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I use releng_6 amd and i386 same story and cpufreq and acpi is >>>>>>> compiled. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Disable powerd again and boot normally. Try changing the frequency >>>>>> with "sysctl dev.cpu", etc. and see if any of the levels freeze for >>>>>> you. >>>>>> >>>>> ok, this is what I get >>>>> >>>>> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2600/100000 2400/85596 2200/72544 2000/60778 >>>>> 1800/50237 1000/25535 >>>>> >>>>> no need to say but the fan levels obviously are wrong >>>>> >>>>> And now the interesting part I shift to 2400 or any other and >>>>> immediately freeze, that from kde konsole >>>>> >>>>> in single user mode I can shift up and down between all speeds and >>>>> nothing happens >>>>> >>>> [Jumping in from the thread started on -stable - >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-July/036395.html >>>> - see there for system details] >>>> >>>> Same here - in single user mode, even powerd works fine - like it does >>>> with SMP disabled - but no go in multiuser. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I see some similar discussion on stable but I can not match with >>>>> everything there because I have the problem only with the athlon 5000 >>>>> cpu >>>>> >>>> The CPU difference is interesting - exactly what model is your X2 4600+? >>>> Mine is a stepping F, model 4B, rev BH-F2 ("Energy Efficient" with 65W >>>> TDP). >>>> >>> seems to be the same >>> >>> but I have better news and seems my first idea was right, the MB is it >>> >>> I found a tech info on the manufactor's support site telling cpu support >>> up to 4600+ and found a bios for newer cpus including my 5000+ >>> >>> so I upgraded the bios and my CPU now works with smp + cpufreq + powerd >>> on both amd64 and i386 >>> >> Good to hear. Unfortunately my Mobo's BIOS is already up-to-date, the >> CPU is officially supported and Cool'n'Quiet works dandy in Windows XP >> ... =/ >> > > my ok msg was too fast, after some time my video starts flickering and stays > so and the PC is freezed up, disabling powerd and works stable > Meanwhile I found a workaround for my system: I had SCHED_ULE configured in my kernel - switching to SCHED_4BSD gets rid of the freezes. Should have thought of that sooner, ISTR having problems with powerd and SCHED_ULE even on single cpu P4s.
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