Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

[Bruno Ducrot]

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"
> > 
> > hints?
> 1) Try patch from ariff@
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/idlecpu_apic_4.diff
> 
> and set /boot/loader.conf
> hw.apic.idle_cpu to "1" or "2"

Unrelated but might be helpful though.

> 2) For HDA, use ariff@ RELENG_6 patch:-

Where do you see there is a problem with the sound btw?

To the OP, please provide at first an output from those commands:

sysctl dev.cpu
sysctl dev.powernow
sysctl dev.acpi_throttle

If there is something from both dev.powernow and dev.acpi_throttle,
please check what driver is actually faulty by disabling one.

For exemple, putting that line:
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
onto /boot/loader.conf
will disable acpi_throttle.
The same apply for powernow:
hint.powernow.0.disabled="1"

Note that a verbose dmesg (boot -v) might be helpful also.

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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