acpi_perf error, powerd exiting

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:01:30PM +0200, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my ThinkPad R32 (dmesg attached), acpi_perf reports the following
> error at times, usually after a period of inactivity:
> 
> acpi_perf0: Px transition to 1200 failed
> acpi_perf0: set freq failed, err 6
> 
> This causes powerd to terminate.  It seems to be a temporary error,
> because if I restart powerd, it works again.  Should powerd be more
> fault-tolerant, is this an acpi_perf bug or my hardware broken?
> 
> I've also attached sysctl dev.cpu and hw.acpi.
> 

Could you please try with
hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled="1"
in your /boot/loader.conf in order to check if ichss work better?

Cheers,

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Bruno Ducrot

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