From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 07:10:02 2010 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 4CCBE106566B for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:10:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B3D8FC16 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so1849310qwi.7 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=S/hrvoQ7Nce1V+HHieaXXCOtCiv2L2rk36i7jZCgM+g=; b=DUssLx3b538hosQvaPcNoWN5Nh/mt+9OjcZ0vaEwhJGI57YcXPJZPvaUK88Hav/2tL lkws0OqWF56bXloBuH7Xmh/3t6kLs9TBVKEQc+N/PV/pLNEqobS/GLdGLivc0fXPxXVK gfDLJj/YnVmKXkHJiXtREkbGsg4jgMIpMZjhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kNhmH9bkOnydm/wI6pKQoJKMFTXi3knX4JY3625l1fAxB37glDwUolXl6gujVJMbkJ Ap+BqbKwlvKy1N9FBC46XPjxyAOb9GRmgzGmCQlt5PV6m4Hu7i7VtP/jsB7tow6cHtgL mKXdase5tj6zCUbRcrjCv/cRbNyHhmbxczx7c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.85.147 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201004121531.33276.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <201004101722.43972.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <201004121531.33276.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:10:01 -0500 Received: by 10.229.218.2 with SMTP id ho2mr318136qcb.51.1271056201216; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Malcolm Kay Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0 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: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:10:02 -0000 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I desperately need to make some progress on this issue. > > Is it likely that the issue is real rather than hardware > or disk corruption? Earlier releases are operating OK on the same > machine. > > I have now confirmed that: > debug.acpi.disabled=acad button cpu lid thermal timer video > still leaves the system crashing and powering down when idle for > a while. And the more extensive: > debug.acpi.disabled=acad bus children button cmbat cpu ec isa > lid pci pci_link sysresource thermal timer video > does the same. > > I don't really need power management but with acpi disabled the > disks are not visible to the system. > > Are there sysctl variables that can influence this behaviour? > Currently I believe we have: > > hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S4 S5 > hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 > hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1 > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 > hw.acpi.suspend_state: NONE > hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1 > hw.acpi.s4bios: 0 > hw.acpi.verbose: 0 > hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot: 0 > hw.acpi.handle_reboot: 0 > hw.acpi.reset_video: 0 > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 > machdep.idle: amdc1e > machdep.idle_available: spin, amdc1e, hlt, acpi, > > However on the earlier RELEASEs that work I note we do not have > machdep.idle or machdep.idle_available. Instead I find: > machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1 > machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 > > Although I've not been able to relate this directly to my problem > from Googling it seems that there some issues with amdc1e under > BSD, Linux and perhaps Windows. But all the references seem to > amd c1e are related to systems in 64 bit mode while I am running > (or trying to run) i386 so I wonder why I have: > machdep.idle: amdc1e > > Maybe my problem is not acpi as such but this idle mode. > > My thought is to change this to > machdep.idle: hlt > or even > machdep.idle: acpi > > Any comments or ideas please! > > Thank you for your attention. > Is there anything in /var/log/messages which indicates the cause? Can you monitor cpu temp? -- Adam Vande More