On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Magnus Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rocky, I patched the Solaris CPU driver to enable bit > > > 1 of the _PDC. Are > > > you willing to give it a try? If it fixes the problem > > > with your system, > > > then I'll see about getting the fix integrated into > > > Nevada. > > > > > > I've attached the driver and an install script. The > > > driver is the 64-bit > > > driver. If you need the 32-bit instead, let me know. > > > > Cheers Mark, this has now fixed SpeedStep and it's working as expected > > and the syslog error message at boot do not appear. > > > > Many thanks for your help and hard work. > > > > I also tried the patched driver; it fixed the problem on my system too. > > I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P motherboard, and an Intel Core2Duo E4600 CPU. > This is on snv_83. > > Good work! > It looks like the amount of the buggy motherboard is not small. Actually, it's an ACPI related bug in the motherboard, not in solaris and speedstep driver. But don't worry, Mark has already had a workaround, and as he indicated, it will be gone in onnv_85/86 and later.
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