From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 11:12:22 2008 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 89D621065678 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:12:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net (pih-relay08.plus.net [212.159.14.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257C08FC1E for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:12:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1KF5gi-0000eg-1F for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:12:20 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KF5gh-0000dP-KJ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:12:19 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:12:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807051212.19513.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: d2a7cf8523e8782c8aa84f7ddd595acf Subject: Passive cooling problem with Athlon CPU 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, 05 Jul 2008 11:12:22 -0000 I'm running 6.3STABLE with an AMD 4850e Athlon X2 and occasionally get the following message on the console: acpi_tz0: failed to set new freq, disabling passive cooling I also see the following 2 messages immediately after devd starts every time I boot (and which don't appear in any log file): hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 sysctl: hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: Invalid argument Should I be concerned about this and, if so, what should I do? The CPU info from dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 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 is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 30 13:32:39 BST 2008 root@curlew.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP ACPI APIC Table: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Processor model unknown (2410.99-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x60fb2 Stepping = 2 Features=0x178bfbff Features2=0x2001 AMD Features=0xea500800 AMD Features2=0x11f Cores per package: 2 real memory = 2080309248 (1983 MB) avail memory = 2017738752 (1924 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ... and output from grep acpi /var/run/dmesg.boot acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: iomem 0xfeff0000-0xfeff03ff on acpi0 device_attach: acpi_hpet0 attach returned 12 cpu0: on acpi0 cpu1: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 acpi_tz0: on acpi0 fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio1: port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: iomem 0xfeff0000-0xfeff03ff on acpi0 device_attach: acpi_hpet0 attach returned 12 -- Mike Clarke