Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:40:18 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd (cpufreq) problems Message-ID: <20050919154018.GB24109@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <200509162117.17787@harrymail> References: <200509162117.17787@harrymail>
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:17:06PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that whenever my notebook (VAIO SRX41p, BETA4) crashed, powerd > prints the following error after reboot: > acpi_perf0: Px transition to 500 failed > acpi_perf0: set freq failed, err 6 > > I can't solve that state, no shutdown/reboot will fix it. _But_, if I boot > XP and reboot everything is fine again. > > I don't have problems if I do a clean shutdown and reboot FreeBSD. > There seems to be something in an invalid state while powerd is running > which powerd corrects at exit. > > Can I provide any useful info to get this fixed? I'm not planning to leave > XP on that machine just because I need it to "reset" cpufreq related > stuff ;) > Is this one with a PIII mobile and a PIIX4 southbridge? If yes, could you please try without acpi_perf but with smist instead? I think that even if you want to keep it working with acpi_perf I can write a simple userspace tool in order to get it working, but I don't think this can be commited though. Cheers, -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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