Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-03-02 Thread John
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:28:37PM +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: That's a nuisance! As I said, IF I load the module before the kernel, I'm good as follows. However if I load after booting, then I don't have any frequencies to choose from. I'm afraid the only "help" I can provide is of my

Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-02-28 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Bottom posted On 29 February 2016 at 12:36, John wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:29:14AM +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > Thanks John, I have cpufreq added via the boot/loader.conf which always >> works. However, over the weekend, I was testing some boot

Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-02-28 Thread John
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:29:14AM +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: Thanks John, I have cpufreq added via the boot/loader.conf which always works. However, over the weekend, I was testing some boot changes and tried to add cpufreq AFTER the kernel - unsuccessfully. This was amd64 10.3Beta1 and

Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-02-28 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Thanks John, I have cpufreq added via the boot/loader.conf which always works. However, over the weekend, I was testing some boot changes and tried to add cpufreq AFTER the kernel - unsuccessfully. This was amd64 10.3Beta1 and 10.3Beta3. A workaround (for you) might be to remove it from the

Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-02-28 Thread John
Hello list, I've been able to get some more info. cc'd to freebsd-performance@ which on 2nd thoughts might have been the better place to ask... [ powerd: no cpufreq(4) support -- aborting: No such file or directory ] Right, I've found that what this chip has is AMD Turbo Core. So really my

problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M

2016-02-28 Thread John
Hello list, I'm using 10.3-BETA3 #0 r296148 compiled today on on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M. I have the following in /etc/rc.d: powerd_enable="YES" I have cpufreq in the kernel config, unmodified GENERIC apart from adding a line for amdtemp. # CPU frequency control device cpufreq Why is