From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 01:47:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9EC16A4CE; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2304643D49; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:47:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-119-74-222.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.119.74.222]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iAB1lMFp002555 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:47:23 -0800 Message-ID: <4192C4A8.9040900@root.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:47:20 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" References: <20041110185429.GA3633@nemesis.md.0xfce3.net> <1100137306.7752.4.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <1100137306.7752.4.camel@RabbitsDen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acpi problems and "stray irq6" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:47:24 -0000 Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:54, Gordon Bergling wrote: >>first sorry for cross posting. I wasn't sure where I should post these >>questions. >> >>I have a new notebook. Its a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7640. Hardware, >>if that matters, is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, SiS (somewhat) Chipset >>and 512MB Ram. >> >>This notebook is running a recent 5-STABLE from a few minutes ago. The >>bios version of the notebook should be the newest. Its dated on >>09/17/2004. >> >>At first there is a problem regarding the speed managment of the cpu. >>Normally and acpi managed cpu should be controlable of the >>"hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state" sysctl. This sysctl doesn't exist. Without >>this capability the cpu is all the time running at ~ 800 MHz, which >>makes build world not really fast. ;) >> >>Has anyone an idea how I could enable this feature? >> >> > > I would have to believe that "throttle" only works on Pentium chips. No, throttling only works on chipsets that support it and export control over it to ACPI. It's not as useful as real CPU control in that it just controls frequency duty cycle, not frequency and voltage combined. -- Nate