From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 03:48:36 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 3503416A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:48:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com (smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 287CD43D3F for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:48:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@70.240.197.108 with login) by smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2004 03:48:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCF061EF; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:48:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 38384-06; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:48:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137036157; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:48:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6G3mXk5006560; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:48:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <40F75011.9010707@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:48:33 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040629) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <20040715222845.333795D08@ptavv.es.net> <40F74BDA.2090408@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40F74BDA.2090408@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI degrading.. ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:48:36 -0000 On 07/15/04 22:30, Eric Anderson wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: >> The cx issue should be fixed. Nate put in a patch to fix it yesterday >> or today. I have also lost acpi_video, but the patch to fix cx may fix >> that, as well. I've been hesitant to update my laptop due to the native >> preemption triggered problems that forced me to roll several bits of the >> kernel back to 7/2. If I get just a little time, I'll cvsup and build a >> new system tomorrow and see how t works (or doesn't). >> > Ahh, ok.. great.. Thanks Nate! I'm also waiting for the preemption > stuff to settle down.. killing my laptop 10 times in one day isn't my > idea of fun.. :) Although, it only ever happened when Firefox was > running.. Come to think of it, all of my hard lockups were when Firefox was running. I think (some of) the issues native preemption uncovered are related to threading. In any case, I commented out "#define PREEMPTION" in src/sys//include/param.h and rebuilt my kernel so it would stay up for more than 30 minutes. Jon