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Date:      Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:55:52 -0600 (CST)
From:      security@revolutionsp.com
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to get APM working -- help!
Message-ID:  <62945.81.84.175.77.1104011752.squirrel@81.84.175.77>
In-Reply-To: <200412261043.30020.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <62903.81.84.175.77.1104000639.squirrel@81.84.175.77> <200412261043.30020.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Hey,

Thanks for the reply!

Indeed, I do have a /dev/apm with APM off and ACPI on, but..

APM version: 1.2
APM Management: Enabled
AC Line status: unknown
Battery Status: charging
Remaining battery life: invalid value (0xffffffff)
Remaining battery time: unknown
Number of batteries: 0

# acpiconf -i0
acpiconf: get battery info (0) failed: Device not configured

o CPU Frequency: 1600ghz
o Battery left : -1%
o Battery time : -1 hrs
o Wireless stat: Radio is ON

Neither APM or acpiconf or estctrl (it's a port) are doing their jobs.
estctrl was correctly lowering the CPU clock to 600ghz, when there was no
load, and maxing it (1.6GHz) under load, but with ACPI off. With ACPI on
it's always at 1.6GHz. Plus, I've noticed the 'top' CPU values are plain
wrong. I was compiling thunderbird, xmms, and firefox and it showed all
processes with 0.00% CPU.

Are there any battery status/etc KDE applications? I've searched, and
found none.

Here is a dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 25 03:41:40 WET 2004
    hugo@porntatil.bsdlan.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/laptop-kernel
WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (1598.65-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d6  Stepping = 6
  Features=0xafe9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 535691264 (510 MB)
avail memory = 514539520 (490 MB)
acpi0: <ACER Kestrel> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1d> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff at
device 0.0 on pci0
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1800-0x181f irq
6 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1820-0x183f irq
6 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1840-0x185f irq
6 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xd0204000-0xd0205fff irq 6 at
device 2.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:9f:6a:8e:1c
bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pci2: <network> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd0209000-0xd0209fff irq 10 at device 6.0
on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem
0xd0200000-0xd0203fff,0xd020a000-0xd020a7ff irq 10 at device 6.2 on pci2
fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:c0:9f:00:00:32:14:de
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:32:14:de
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:32:14:de
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
pci2: <mass storage> at device 6.3 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port
0x1860-0x186f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdf800-0xdffff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1598649123 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
WARNING: apm_saver module requires apm enabled
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
ad0: 57231MB <TOSHIBA MK6025GAS/KA200A> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: DVDR <Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-852S/PRS9> at ata1-master UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
Enhanced Speedstep running at 1600 MHz
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG MiniPCI> mem 0xd0208000-0xd0208fff irq
10 at device 4.0 on pci2
iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:8d:db:e3
iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff mem
0xd0000800-0xd00008ff,0xd0000c00-0xd0000dff irq 10 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x43585430)>





> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:20, security@revolutionsp.com wrote:
>> Still, /dev/apm*'s never show up. Except if I actually disable APM and
>> enable ACPI instead, /dev/apm will show.. but no /dev/apmctl.
>>
>> I'm new to the laptop world and I really would like to enable power
>> saving
>> features on this laptop.. I managed to get est/estctrl running, and it
>> was
>> changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to the load, but when I
>> disabled APM and enabled ACPI this ceases to work and the CPU will
>> always
>> run at  1600ghz. Also, acpiconf -i0 says device not configured..
>
> Use ACPI.
> It will provide an APM like interface (/dev/apm) for userland apps to use
> to
> get info.
>
> It's possible your laptop doesn't even _do_ APM :)
>
>> As far as I was able to see, most battery monitoring stuff (integrated
>> on
>> KDE and all) will depend on APM.. So I'd really like to enable it!
>
> ACPI will allow you to do this plus a lot more.
>
> If you want to do things based on power related state changes (eg lid
> close,
> power button press, AC unplugged etc..) you can use devd which can respond
> to
> ACPI events.
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
>




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