From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 15:05:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA8C106566B for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E778FC17 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o5OF5dPt092946; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:05:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:05:38 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Stefan Farfeleder In-Reply-To: <20100624140454.GJ1735@mole.fafoe.narf.at> Message-ID: <20100625005304.M9227@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20100620161124.GA1692@mole.fafoe.narf.at> <20100622010612.T9227@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20100624140454.GJ1735@mole.fafoe.narf.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Precision m4400 acline problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:55 -0000 On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:36:03AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm running FreeBSD current on a Dell Precision m4400 notebook and got > > > the following issue: When I unplug the notebook's power, the CPU > > > performance goes down to < 50%. While this isn't nice, the real problem > > > is that when I replug the power adapter, the performance stays low. So I > > > basically have to reboot to get back at full performance :( > > > > > > I suspect this is an ACPI-related problem. You can find dmesg output, > > > ACPI tables and ASL at http://people.freebsd.org/~stefanf/m4400/ . > > > > > > BTW I'm not using powerd. > > > > Whether or not using powerd, /etc/rc.d/power_profile (run by devd) will > > set CPU frequency according to values in {performance,economy}_cpu_freq > > whenever state changes between offline (battery) and online (AC). Such > > events are typically logged in /var/log/messages. > > > > The /etc/defaults/rc.conf value for both of these is 'NONE' and you'll > > see in power_profile that a 'NONE' value causes no change, where 'HIGH" > > or 'LOW' values adjust CPU freq to the highest or lowest values from > > sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels - or you can specify one freq from those > > levels to apply for either state. > > > > If you have no overrides in /etc/rc.conf, you may want to set values > > there for *_cpu_freq .. it may be that your ACPI chooses some default > > frequency on these events, perhaps according to your BIOS settings? > > Thanks. I think I solved my problem. I do not use power profiles and > thus the dev.cpu.0.freq stays at 2801. However going offline evidently > causes the frequency to decrease internally, ie. without dev.cpu.0.freq > knowing, so when I manually reset the frequency to 2801, the system is > fast again. Goodo. But adding these to /etc/rc.conf would save that manual bother: performance_cpu_freq="HIGH" economy_cpu_freq="HIGH" since /etc/rc.d/power_profile is run on ACAD events anyway, at least with the default /etc/devd.conf cheers, Ian