powerd (cpufreq) problems

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Montag, 19. September 2005 17:40 CEST schrieb Bruno Ducrot:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:17:06PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed that whenever my notebook (VAIO SRX41p, BETA4) crashed,
> > powerd prints the following error after reboot:
> > acpi_perf0: Px transition to 500 failed
> > acpi_perf0: set freq failed, err 6
> >
> > I can't solve that state, no shutdown/reboot will fix it. _But_, if I
> > boot XP and reboot everything is fine again.
> >
> > I don't have problems if I do a clean shutdown and reboot FreeBSD.
> > There seems to be something in an invalid state while powerd is
> > running which powerd corrects at exit.
> >
> > Can I provide any useful info to get this fixed? I'm not planning to
> > leave XP on that machine just because I need it to "reset" cpufreq
> > related stuff ;)
>
> Is this one with a PIII mobile and a PIIX4 southbridge?

It's a PIII LV mobile and i815, I think ICH is not PIIX4...

Thanks,

-Harry

> If yes, could you please try without acpi_perf but with smist instead?
>
> I think that even if you want to keep it working with acpi_perf
> I can write a simple userspace tool in order to get it working, but
> I don't think this can be commited though.
>
> Cheers,
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