Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:57:35PM +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:08:57PM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> > On 12/20/06, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot at poupinou.org> wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:11:25PM +0800, Kevin Foo wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:40, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> > >> > Hello guys,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have problem with my laptop Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi which has AMD
> > >> > Turion? 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of ram.
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm running i386 6.2-RC1 upgraded to 6.2-PRELEASE via RELENG6 tag
> > >> > since I don't have more than 4 GB of ram.
> > >> >
> > >> > But the the laptop even doesn't boot some times,  and if booted it
> > >> > hangs all the time, till I hashed out powerd_enable="YES"
> > >> >
> ...
> ...
> 
> > #sysctl dev.powernow
> > dev.powernow.0.%desc: PowerNow! K8
> > dev.powernow.0.%driver: powernow
> > dev.powernow.0.%parent: cpu0
> > dev.powernow.0.freq_settings: 1592/70000 796/19383
> > dev.powernow.1.%desc: PowerNow! K8
> > dev.powernow.1.%driver: powernow
> > dev.powernow.1.%parent: cpu1
> > dev.powernow.1.freq_settings: 1592/70000 796/19383
> > 
> > # sysctl dev.acpi_throttle
> > sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.acpi_throttle'
> 
> Thanks.  Could you please try this path:
> 
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
> 
> cd /sys/i386/cpufreq
> patch < /path/to/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
> cd /sys/modules/cpufreq
> make
> make install
> make clean
> 
> then reboot and please report if that help with the powerd problem.
> 

Oops, I forgot you included cpufreq to your config file.  Of course,
you need to rebuild your kernel instead of regenerating the cpufreq
module.

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Bruno Ducrot

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