Acer laptop 5102 WLMi with AMD Turion 64 X2 hangs with cpufreq in latest 7.0-current

[Abdullah Al-Marrie]

On 1/7/07, Rainer Alves <rainer.alves at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have problem with my laptop Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi which has AMD
> > Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz.
>
> Apply this patch to your src tree:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/idlecpu_apic_5.diff
>
> And then add the following to /boot/loader.conf:
> hw.apic.idle_cpu="2"
>
> Rebuild the kernel and reboot.
>
> The patch above was created by Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org>, you
> should read the following PR/followups for a (very) detailed
> discussion regarding this Turion 64-X2 problem:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/104678
>
> PS: I also own a notebook with this CPU, and this patch solved things
> here... both CPU cores are usable and the system is stable.
>
> - Rainer Alves
>

Hello Rainer,

I read the pr=i386/104678, both of my cpus work, the problem happens
only when I use powerd otherwise all is ok.

So do you use powerd now?

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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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