From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 9 02:10:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFF4106566B for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:10:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=d038fb8330f60a2637244e3e48fcc88adb4ed9fd=634=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713BD8FC18 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:10:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=d038fb8330f60a2637244e3e48fcc88adb4ed9fd=634=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id PFT59538; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:10:38 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 3EABE4500F; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 18:10:38 -0800 (PST) To: Guy Brand In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:06:11 PST." <20080309020611.D0DCD4500F@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1205028638_10488P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:10:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080309021038.3EABE4500F@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Guy Brand X-To_Domain: isis.u-strasbg.fr X-To: Guy Brand X-To_Email: gb@isis.u-strasbg.fr X-To_Alias: gb Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad x61s X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:10:43 -0000 --==_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" > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:33:40 +0100 > > From: Guy Brand > > 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--