From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 00:16:53 2012 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 27AFF106568C for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hskuhra@fastmail.fm) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5CA8FC1D for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C2F2036B for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:57:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:57:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= date:message-id:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; s= mesmtp; bh=FsDquhwTJrWKGRonu/F1wrRmKuE=; b=iXIrqC61O4iZwcK8WB1Nv h0dcBLlpzuBhkFBAjnvrmLtonQRm4Ri1eJErX5iNaFqkCgYp8ctZfrQoOX70+1kW YfWQYIhE04+NmTjD8PAlnQVVMJ629y2Q8XMixzhKSrLnl0lOdLB3/Ev3yl5Fl8F2 yi5hpQdhxCwPjXnUFQU5kI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:subject :mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=FsDquhwTJrWKGRonu/F1wr RmKuE=; b=skNbH5VO5rJnNbmZQLL0PFVZF7lze0x0otCRaq/7FIHUCZ7AqOx1As NvqOCl6PpqlmBRLwh2QvPGiFOeyv1Lo1SNKOYLa5eWCFgPIHtFky6tjE5abZ3Wd0 S7JaVwNFlcap9EK9b51OQkpxoBQzsFmmeiXZBG0qJRgyPR509dq4s= X-Sasl-enc: W4qWuMml8Mvl80ilw4SYyNXZ6AMbBcpRIRvgUilHZjoK 1325894222 Received: from oslo.ath.cx (unknown [188.118.228.74]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C21AA48249A for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:57:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:57:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87mxa0v0z5.wl%hskuhra@fastmail.fm> From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.0.92 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Running 9.0-STABLE on a Soekris Net6501-70 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: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:16:53 -0000 Hi! I am running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE on a Soekris Net6501-70 which has the following CPU: CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 1.60GHz (1600.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20661 Family = 6 Model = 26 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfe9fbff Features2=0x40e3bd AMD Features=0x20100000 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics Running a GENERIC (i386) kernel the cpu by default runs at only 600Mhz: % sysctl dev.cpu dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%parent: legacy0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 600 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/-1 1400/-1 1200/-1 1000/-1 800/-1 600/-1 400/-1 200/-1 I either have to run 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1600' or run 'powerd' to make the cpu faster. Probaby related: ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found (20110527/tbxfroot-237) ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support. [...] cpu0 on motherboard est0: on cpu0 est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized. est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 615101c06000617 device_attach: est0 attach returned 6 p4tcc0: on cpu0 cpu1 on motherboard est1: on cpu1 est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized. est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 615101c06000617 device_attach: est1 attach returned 6 [...] Can this be fixed or should I just add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf: hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1 hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 hint.est.0.disabled=1 Thanks. -- Herbert