Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:28:35 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: bruno@freebsd.org, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus Message-ID: <200708060928.36154.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <46AB160D.6040207@freebsd.org> References: <200707271109.51334.joao@matik.com.br> <200707290614.18469.joao@matik.com.br> <46AB160D.6040207@freebsd.org>
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On Saturday 28 July 2007 07:10:21 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > but I have better news and seems my first idea was right, the MB is it > > > > I found a tech info on the manufactor's support site telling cpu support > > up to 4600+ and found a bios for newer cpus including my 5000+ > > > > so I upgraded the bios and my CPU now works with smp + cpufreq + powerd > > on both amd64 and i386 > > > > Good to hear. Unfortunately my Mobo's BIOS is already up-to-date, the > CPU is officially supported and Cool'n'Quiet works dandy in Windows XP I had a chance to test several MBs with the same 6000+, 5000+ and 4600+ cpu At the end seems that the problem is mb/hardware related since some combinations hung even with latest BIOS installed and others not. I tested newer MATX MBs and the only one which seems to run stable for long time is the Gigabyte MCP61 chipset. All others are freezing sooner or later with Athlon 5000 or faster CPUs. The problem is less with the 4600 CPU almost all boards are fine and with 4200 CPU no problem at all. The MBs with sis vga onboard are appearently unusable with the higher freq CPUs. ATI and NVidia are ok. Xorg appearently do not like HPET enabled because it freezes then with all this boards I tested. Anyway, funny is that Fedora 7 which I have on the same HD is not freezing (same xorg+kde version) what makes me guess that eventual there is some problem with freebsd's acpi understanding the acpi tables when using this high freq amd processors. Only to remember the problem only ocurres when loading powerd and seems the freeze happens when cpu freq is upshifting not down. Not sure if it is worth looking deeper into this on 6 and soon I have some time I will check current first -- Joćo A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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