7.0 systems shows no CPU states numbers with ACPI

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Thu Feb 28 19:05:00 UTC 2008


Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have an old Dell desktop with a 1 GHz PIII CPU.
> 
> After upgrade to V7 yesterday I no longer see any CPU usage information
> in top(1) or the CPU plots in gkrellm. (Yes, my kernel and world are in
> sync and I cleaned out /usr/obj/* and /usr/include/* when I upgraded my
> system.) I disabled ACPI and everything worked again.
> 
> The ASL is pretty small. The output of acpidump -dt is only about 3100
> lines. I have placed it along with a verbose dmesg and the config (PAK) at:
> http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/pak.asl.bz2
> http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/PAK
> http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/dmesg.boot
> 
> Any idea what failed? I was running current on this system in the middle
> of last year and it worked then, so it was sometime between then and now.

Only thing I can think of is that cpufreq is now enabled by default. 
Try disabling it:
hint.cpufreq.0.disabled="1"

-- 
Nate


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