Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:41:43 -0300 From: Nenhum_de_Nos <matheusber@gmail.com> To: "Bruno Ducrot" <ducrot@poupinou.org> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Turion64 X2 works with PowerNow! thank you Bruno Message-ID: <4956a5e50708241941if3b7778h8433b7ce6e4730e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070205135815.GH12197@poupinou.org> References: <499c70c0701240044q32162e40ye8f923bf758e8633@mail.gmail.com> <20070124103226.GA12197@poupinou.org> <20070124181449.GI874@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070124184828.GC12197@poupinou.org> <20070202094627.GA1758@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070205135815.GH12197@poupinou.org>
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On 2/5/07, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:46:27PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-Jan-24 19:48:28 +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > > >acpi_throttle is broken ATM on your machine. BTW if you boot with > > >hint.apic.0.disabled="1" > > >into /boot/loader.conf > > >does this solve the acpi_throttle issue? > > > > No. hint.apic.0.disabled makes no difference to me: > > hint.powernow.0.disabled has no effect (powernow0 still attaches) and > > throttling can still cause random lockups unless acpi_throttle is > > disabled. > > > > Thanks for your report. In order to disable powernow, you shouldn't > load the cpufreq kernel module, or don't compile your kernel > with the device cpufreq. > > The cpufreq.ko is a bundlle of different hw drivers related to > cpufreq, but without the acpi specfic ones, those being acpi_throttle and > acpi_perf and they are included into acpi.ko. > > After that check, you want to go back to powernow enabled and without > acpi_throttle, since powernow ofer way much more power saving than > throttling. > > Cheers, hi, I didnt read this thread from the beginning, and got confused with so many modules. i have a Turion X2, and -CURRENT on it. If I'd like to use that powersaving features, and frequency change capabilities ( I had a Pentium M based before and it used to work really fine, 6.1R in that time) now with this turion, what modules should I load ? it is possible to know this list, apart from trial and error ? thanks in advance, matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be
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