From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 21:13:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED90816A511 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 21:13:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from starbug.netinertia.co.uk (starbug.netinertia.co.uk [217.147.82.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C053E43D53 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 21:13:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from croydon.netinertia.co.uk ([82.69.247.45] helo=[10.1.0.82]) by starbug.netinertia.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FdZY1-000Ltr-IC; Tue, 09 May 2006 22:15:15 +0100 Message-ID: <446105EF.50907@netinertia.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 22:13:19 +0100 From: James O'Gorman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Howells References: <4460E83A.8050301@netinertia.co.uk> <4460ECD9.7030505@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <4460ECD9.7030505@kde.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NetI-Spam-Score: -0.2 (/) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s 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: Tue, 09 May 2006 21:13:47 -0000 Chris Howells wrote: > James O'Gorman wrote: >>>> * Dual-core CPU >>> Does CPU speed scaling work with both cores? >> >> How do you check that? (This is my first non-Mac laptop...) > > Load the cpufreq.ko module, either at the loader prompt, or by adding > [snip] > > powernow0: on cpu0 I now get: est0: on cpu0 est1: on cpu1 I've enabled powerd too so I'll see if it does anything :-) > ... is the line from my AMD Sempron server. > > If it is I guess you can try enabling powerd, something like > > powerd_enable="YES" > > in /etc/rc.conf > > Followed by > > /etc/rc.d/powerd start > > Then the CPU frequency should be automatically reduced when the load is > low to reduce heat and power consumption. > > Then something like this should give you an idea if it's working: > > [chris@sauron ~]$ sysctl -a dev.cpu | grep freq > dev.cpu.0.freq: 1800 > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1800/59000 1000/21700 I get: > sysctl -a dev.cpu | grep freq dev.cpu.0.freq: 125 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1667/31000 1458/27125 1333/22000 1166/19250 1000/13000 875/11375 750/9750 625/8125 500/6500 375/4875 250/3250 125/1625 There is also: dev.est.0.freq_settings: 1667/31000 1333/22000 1000/13000 dev.est.1.freq_settings: 1667/31000 1333/22000 1000/13000 Although the dev.cpu0.freq was at 1667 earlier, so I dunno if powerd or est has slowed it down or if it's just plain wrong! (This is while plugged into AC.) > (hopefully you'd see an entry for the second core also) There are entries for dev.cpu.1, but no freq entries. >> I've just got GNOME installed and I can't get esd to run at all, so I'm >> guessing not. I've tried kldloading every sound module there is! Unless >> it needs one that isn't built by default... > > I'd probably expect it to use the snd_ich.ko driver. Unfortunately not. I set snd_ich_load="YES" in loader.conf, but when I log into KDE, Arts just tells me that /dev/dsp doesn't exist. I tried setting hw.snd.maxautovchans to 4, just in case, but no luck. James