Sorry for the delay, Having not logged on locally for some time I found my monitor not working when gnome started up, now resolved. The BIOS update was completed, there are the same error messages in messages file but Kstat shows supported freq of 2GHz & 3Ghz with instance 0 running at 2Ghz and isntance 1 running at 3. I'm not sure its fully correct but seem to have made progress, is this the best I can expect without even newer BIOS? Im running F3 but reluctant to goto F4a as its alpha/beta code
Finally any pointers on how to check my disk is spinning down when idle? Once again, thank you so much for your help :-) Mar 6 15:19:10 opensolaris cpudrv: [ID 569748 kern.info] NOTICE: cpu_acpi: _TSS package not found. Mar 6 15:19:10 opensolaris cpudrv: [ID 227567 kern.warning] WARNING: cpu_acpi: error parsing _TSS for CPU instance 1 Mar 6 15:19:10 opensolaris cpudrv: [ID 888440 kern.warning] WARNING: cpudrv_mach_pm_init: instance 1: unable to initialize T-state support OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1 Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies) C0 (cpu running) (28.1%) 2000 Mhz 100.0% C1 1.5ms (71.9%) 3000 Mhz 0.0% Wakeups-from-idle per second: 491.4 interval: 5.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 26.3% (129.3) <kernel> : genunix`cv_wakeup 20.3% (100.0) <kernel> : genunix`clock 11.3% ( 55.5) <interrupt> : rge#0 6.5% ( 31.7) gnome-system-mon : <cross calls> 4.7% ( 23.2) <kernel> : uhci`uhci_handle_root_hub_status_change 2.0% ( 10.0) <kernel> : ata`ghd_timeout 1.9% ( 9.4) sched : <cross calls> 1.5% ( 7.6) <kernel> : ehci`ehci_handle_root_hub_status_change 1.2% ( 6.0) <kernel> : uhci`uhci_cmd_timeout_hdlr 0.8% ( 4.0) <kernel> : genunix`schedpaging root at opensolaris:~# kstat -m cpu_info module: cpu_info instance: 0 name: cpu_info0 class: misc brand Intel(r) Core(tm)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz chip_id 0 clock_MHz 3000 clog_id 0 core_id 0 cpu_type i386 crtime 58.974818813 current_clock_Hz 2000000000 family 6 fpu_type i387 compatible implementation x86 (chipid 0x0 GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock 3000 MHz) model 23 ncore_per_chip 2 ncpu_per_chip 2 pkg_core_id 0 snaptime 1200.387906209 state on-line state_begin 1236353298 stepping 10 supported_frequencies_Hz 2000000000:3000000000 vendor_id GenuineIntel module: cpu_info instance: 1 name: cpu_info1 class: misc brand Intel(r) Core(tm)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz chip_id 0 clock_MHz 3000 clog_id 1 core_id 1 cpu_type i386 crtime 65.063795247 current_clock_Hz 2000000000 family 6 fpu_type i387 compatible implementation x86 (chipid 0x0 GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock 3000 MHz) model 23 ncore_per_chip 2 ncpu_per_chip 2 pkg_core_id 1 snaptime 1200.388505375 state on-line state_begin 1236353304 stepping 10 supported_frequencies_Hz 2000000000:3000000000 vendor_id GenuineIntel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org