From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 10: 7:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from is.lamefree.com (is.lamefree.com [209.144.220.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7E9151F9; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stalker@is.lamefree.com) Received: from localhost (stalker@localhost) by is.lamefree.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA08879; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Stalker To: James FitzGibbon Cc: Joe Greco , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, aaron-fbsd@mutex.org Subject: Re: CPU states at 0.0% on 3.2-R SMP box ? In-Reply-To: <19990615120256.H32341@ehlo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it necessary to have APM enabled in the bios for this device to fix the problem? thanks, jeff stalker@feerbsd.org On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, James FitzGibbon wrote: > * Joe Greco (jgreco@ns.sol.net) [990615 11:33]: > > > I would advise that you first try adding the line > > > > device apm0 at isa? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management > > > > to your kernel config. I was one of the people with a flock of P2B-DS's > > that exhibited this behaviour, and on the machines I've done this on, it > > has magically fixed itself. > > Much thanks - that seems to have fixed the problem. The machine was > performing extremely sluggishly before I put the apm0 device in, but now it > is reporting CPU states accurately and is responsive to boot. > > -- > j. > > James FitzGibbon (JF647) james@ehlo.com > EHLO Solutions Voice/Fax +1 416 410-0100 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message