Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:54:57 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?) Message-ID: <30595.1130493297@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:28:33 %2B0200." <20051028112833.7vs98zpvy808s04k@netchild.homeip.net>
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In message <20051028112833.7vs98zpvy808s04k@netchild.homeip.net>, Alexander Lei dinger writes: >Hi, > >I switched the timecounter used to use the TSC instead of the ACPI one >(/etc/sysctl.conf). After rebooting powerd refused to start. I removed the >line which changes the timecounter in sysctl.conf and powerd starts again. > >Is this expected, or is this a bug? > >If this is expected: > - powerd fails with an unhelpful message Alexander sends unhelpful bug report without including unhelpful message :-) In general, if you run powerd to change your cpu clock (= TSC frequency), using TSC as timecounter is _not_ what you want to do. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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