From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 22:37:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7611065692 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:37:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A1A8FC08 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1758 invoked by uid 399); 21 Dec 2009 22:37:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 Dec 2009 22:37:05 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B2FF896.5020106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:37:10 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "b. f." References: <4B2FF2D9.3030005@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B2FF2D9.3030005@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: powerd and nvidia drivers not playing nicely together (Was: Re: Systems running hot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:37:07 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > b. f. wrote: >>> no X! So I think to myself, what else did I change last night.... oh >>> yeah, powerd! So I turn that off, and voila, X! >> Do you really mean powerd(8)? > > I did, but the problem got worse. With the following: > performance_cx_lowest="C2" # Online CPU idle state > economy_cx_lowest="C2" # Offline CPU idle state > > X would begin to start up, but it would stay with a black screen and > never complete. Changing all 4 settings (cpu_freq and cx) to NONE > allowed it to start up again. Well, things seem to be working again with *_lowest=C2 so I'm thinking that the nvidia problems in connection with this yesterday were not related. I put ACPI_DEBUG in my kernel config and rebooted. Here is the verbose dmesg: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/dmesg-verbose.txt Thanks again for your help, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/