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Date:      03 Mar 2003 19:14:06 -0800
From:      Mike Brown <mwbrown@halfzero.net>
To:        Fish <fish@fish-mail.com>
Cc:        Richard Arends <richard@unixguru.nl>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inspiron 8200 Won't Boot at Max Speed, no APM
Message-ID:  <1046747646.2630.2.camel@zero.halfzero.net>
In-Reply-To: <1046793151.755.29.camel@current>
References:  <1046661890.763.3.camel@zero.halfzero.net> <20030303110645.E13252@mail.unixguru.nl> <1046688098.625.1.camel@zero.halfzero.net> <20030303122927.U13252@mail.unixguru.nl>  <1046793151.755.29.camel@current>

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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 07:52, Fish wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:56, Richard Arends wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Mike Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > > Working on battery??
> > 
> > > Nope,
> > 
> > Ok, just checking ;-)
> > 
> > > I found that if I completely power off, then power back on, it fixes it
> > > for a little while.  But once it gets to hot, the fan comes on and it
> > > slows way down.  I'm trying to build a new kernel right now without apm,
> > > it's taking forever though.
> > 
> > Hmm, this looks like your BIOS pulls the emergency break. Is it possible
> > to use ACPI instead of APM on your laptop? Then you can also easy check
> > the current temp with gkrellm for example.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Richard.
> 
> Did anyone ever reach resolution on this, because I'm seeing similar
> symptoms on my Inspiron 8200.  My P4 1600 boots at and stays at 1200,
> even with the throttling disabled in the BIOS when not on battery
> power.  I've compiled my kernel without APM, and in /boot/device.hints
> the hint.apm.0.disabled sysctl is set to 1, so there shouldn't be any
> APM interference.
> 

All I can do is go in to the bios and disable speedstep.  As that is
what allows the change of speed, disabling it naturally gets rid of the
problem.  However, this increases how much power the computer uses, and
keeps it running hotter than normal.  I'd really like to find a better
fix than this.

-Mike

> Thanks much,
> 
> Fish
> 
> 
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