Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:25:18 +0100 From: Michele Heurs <michele.heurs@aei.mpg.de> To: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems on HP Compaq nx6325 Message-ID: <45B636EE.40602@aei.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: <20070123012532.31d605a0.ariff@FreeBSD.org> References: <45AF925C.9050104@aei.mpg.de> <20070119223740.GD47713@uriah.heep.sax.de> <45B1579B.7010009@root.org> <45B4EB0A.5070103@aei.mpg.de> <20070123012532.31d605a0.ariff@FreeBSD.org>
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Ariff Abdullah wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:49:14 +0100 Michele Heurs > <michele.heurs@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >> Nate Lawson wrote: >> >>> Also, *which* patch are you using from the PR? THere are a few >>> different ones. >> I first tried this patch: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/idlecpu_apic_5.diff >> >> which alone didn't fix the problem. > > You got it all wrong. Apply the patch, set hw.apic.idle_cpu=1 (or 2). > > >> Then I changed machdep.c as described by Ariff: (...) and inserted >> this in loader.conf: >> >> machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0 >> >> Now it seems to work :) > > Backout this one. It'll hurt you much with the increase of > heat/temperature. Thanks for the advice. I have changed loader.conf and returned machdep.c to its initial state and it seems to be working fine. >> P.S.: Can this be merged into 6-stable soon? >> > This violate every sense of proper solution and will be left there > dying alone as a poor man workaround. May I then suggest that the proper workaround as described by Ariff here ought to be documented concisely? Due to its length and complexity the thread under http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104678&cat= is somewhat hard to understand... Thanks again for the help! :) Bye, Michèle -- ********************************************** Dr. Michèle Heurs Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Callinstr. 38 30167 Hannover Germany Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 762 - 5845 Fax: +49 (0)511 - 762 - 2784 Web: http://www.aei.mpg.de **********************************************
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