From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 20:25:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5934516A4A5 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE4B13C4AA for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so59055ana for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=i62yDs++3kXoEbi4+zJiQ9p5QJsfPl4ZolmF32T8ifU=; b=i+znUfaqpxM/B0K5q6F5nkSG6M7gNPAKNBWRpRmAF5ssn/4VHnl0LMQcQfkauGrvNuif66HEvyJ9n81V1wwqd+G4Zzcz2zehJLB1beNFE8CJ/BNTswxu4+5Ubw/G2lpWjwA3KuPs39GzeHfmLdG1Ur2l7VMulRh5IpBMiOPJ5Ls= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ND2JgU1PhzXGwo9u33WSPH8c/UO22Y/t86LbzSzBkvBCtWe4W6CCW1g6M0UwGpj9pmMHLmYUtfMxO/BwAbDw/tFFPWk9wMcBI7vntGPVipOqLbAjYLiPMVW8VjhEAHob/yhH6pKAWTZu7g6LR87uhnbhdItmkgp7HLIrcvh1ntQ= Received: by 10.100.242.20 with SMTP id p20mr1346540anh.1193257511355; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.64.14 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:25:11 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" To: "Ross Penner" , "Erik Cederstrand" , "User questions" In-Reply-To: <20071024195646.GA67817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> <20071024195646.GA67817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Cc: Subject: Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:25:24 -0000 On 10/24/07, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > > sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to > > > work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 > > > > Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system > > is mostly idle, It outputs '198' and when I put a high cpu load on it, > > it outputs '397'. I'm not exactly sure what this means as I'm hoping > > it doesn't refer to the MHz. > > I'm afraid it does; > > $ sysctl -d dev.cpu.0.freq > dev.cpu.0.freq: Current CPU frequency > > When I see a CPU speed of 1 GHz in conky, I get: > > $ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq > dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000 > > (on my athlon64) > > What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the > available CPU frequencies. > I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should be reporting to stable? It's not explicitly mentioned in the hardware notes so I'm not sure if my processor is actually supported in 6.2. Is it possible that I've been shipped the wrong processor? If so, how would I be able to tell short of ripping off the giant heatsink and looking?