From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 12:28:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714E816A417; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D620D13C46B; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb.matik.com.br (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.14.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l76CSdox093739; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:28:39 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR Organization: Infomatik To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:28:35 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707271109.51334.joao@matik.com.br> <200707290614.18469.joao@matik.com.br> <46AB160D.6040207@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46AB160D.6040207@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708060928.36154.joao@matik.com.br> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.90.3, clamav-milter version 0.90.3 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: bruno@freebsd.org, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock , Nate Lawson Subject: Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:28:40 -0000 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 > > =A0 > > 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=20 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= =20 time is the Gigabyte MCP61 chipset. All others are freezing sooner or later= =20 with Athlon 5000 or faster CPUs.=20 The problem is less with the 4600 CPU almost all boards are fine and with 4= 200=20 CPU no problem at all. The MBs with sis vga onboard are appearently unusable with the higher freq= =20 CPUs. ATI and NVidia are ok.=20 Xorg appearently do not like HPET enabled because it freezes then with all= =20 this boards I tested. Anyway, funny is that Fedora 7 which I have on the same HD is not freezing = =20 (same xorg+kde version) what makes me guess that eventual there is some=20 problem with freebsd's acpi understanding the acpi tables when using this=20 high freq amd processors. Only to remember the problem only ocurres when loading powerd and seems the= =20 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= =20 time I will check current first=20 =2D-=20 Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br