powerd on Sempron 3400+

[Evren Yurtesen]

Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On 4/7/07, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen at ispro.net> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I have had the same problem today :)
>> acpi_ppc works fine with this processor 
>> http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/
>> It seems like powerd is using weird mhz combinations. It tried to 
>> lower the processor
>> speed to 100mhz!
>>
>> When using ACPI_PPC you can even see the percentage of time at which 
>> speed
>> your processor ws running.
>>
>> hw.acpi.cpu.px_supported: 1800 1466 1200 933 666 533
>> hw.acpi.cpu.px_usage: 46.03% 1.28% 1.31% 1.23% 1.51% 48.60%
>>
>> It is sad that acpi_ppc is not yet in ports. Maybe if you report your
>> experiences to the author, he can attempt to get it into ports.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Evren
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>   I am trying to get powerd working on a sempron 3400+.  powerd -v
>> shows it reducing the clock speed for a short period, and
>> then the system either locks up or in once case paniced.
>> Sometimes the NIC driver is reporting watchdog timeout, but all
>> else is locked up.   dmesg.boot attached.  This is 6.2-stable
>> kernel and 6.2-release user land.  Is this expected to work?
>> Any suggestions on debugging it?
>>
> Try adding the following to /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
> 
> Scot

Scot, as long as I dont run powerd, things do work fine. What does this
setting do exactly?

Thanks,
Evren