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 08:13:50PM +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> 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.

It should be ok now.

For detailed instruction:

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/cpufreq
fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
patch < powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff

Now if you do have still your
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN
then:

cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN
make
make install

or if you have already removed /usr/obj, then rebuild your kernel via

cd /usr/src
make kernel KERNCONF=ARABIAN

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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