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 09:42:01PM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> On 12/20/06, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot at poupinou.org> 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.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >--
> >Bruno Ducrot
> 
> Greetings Burno,
> 
> Thanks for your kind prompt to help.
> 
> I'm not advanced user to apply patches, I didn't reach this level yet :P
> 
> Can you please give the details HOWTO?

Yes, of course, but I just found my patch will make thinks worst.  I'm
currently reworking it.

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Bruno Ducrot

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