Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:10:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Guy Brand <gb@isis.u-strasbg.fr> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad x61s Message-ID: <20080309021038.3EABE4500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:06:11 PST." <20080309020611.D0DCD4500F@ptavv.es.net>
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--==_Exmh_1205028638_10488P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:06:11 -0800 > From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:33:40 +0100 > > From: Guy Brand <gb@isis.u-strasbg.fr> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > Dan Langille (dan@langille.org) on 04/03/2008 at 07:34 wrote: > > > > > Are you running FreeBSD on a ThinkPad x61s? Details please... > > > > I do. > > > > FreeBSD FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #58: Sun Mar 2 17:36:43 CET 2008 > > snd_hda, acpi_ibm, if_wpi for hardware specific support. Xorg > > 7.3 working out of the box. cpufreq behaves strangely going > > from AC power to battery mode and back, so I removed it from > > the kernel config. Fan and thermal controls are fine. 6-cell > > battery provides ca. 260 mn of work time. > > My experience is that you want to remove cpufreq on any newer > ThinkPad. My T43 "works" with CPUFREQ, but behaves very strangely. > Without it I see: > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2000/27000 1750/23625 1600/22600 1400/19775 1333/19666 1166/17207 1066/16733 932/14641 800/13800 700/12075 600/10350 500/8625 400/6900 300/5175 200/3450 100/1725 > > Without it, I no longer see any energy values (all show '0') and going ^^^^^^^^^^---With it, (Sorry!) > on/off battery sometimes does not switch powerd properly. Also the > system will automatically drop the maximum speed to 800 MHz when on > battery. > > This all happens without cpufreq. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1205028638_10488P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH00cekn3rs5h7N1ERAsYeAJ9gudQ2XqaOl/2tlo8Ddb4bljTgjQCfZIE7 N/qGwjzQBSTmHAYtkWYLgRo= =YROy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1205028638_10488P--
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