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

[Abdullah Al-Marrie]

On 12/20/06, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot at poupinou.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:08:57PM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> > On 12/20/06, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot at poupinou.org> wrote:
> > >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"
> > >> >
> ...
> ...
>
> > #sysctl dev.powernow
> > dev.powernow.0.%desc: PowerNow! K8
> > dev.powernow.0.%driver: powernow
> > dev.powernow.0.%parent: cpu0
> > dev.powernow.0.freq_settings: 1592/70000 796/19383
> > dev.powernow.1.%desc: PowerNow! K8
> > dev.powernow.1.%driver: powernow
> > dev.powernow.1.%parent: cpu1
> > dev.powernow.1.freq_settings: 1592/70000 796/19383
> >
> > # sysctl dev.acpi_throttle
> > sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.acpi_throttle'
>
> Thanks.  Could you please try this path:
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
>
> cd /sys/i386/cpufreq
> patch < /path/to/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
> cd /sys/modules/cpufreq
> make
> make install
> make clean
>
> then reboot and please report if that help with the powerd problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Bruno Ducrot

Greetings Burno,

Thanks for your kind prompt to help.

I'm not advanced user to apply patches, I didn't reach this level yet :P

Can you please give the details HOWTO?

# cd i386/
# ls
Makefile        compile         i386            isa             svr4
acpica          conf            ibcs2           linux           xbox
bios            cpufreq         include         pci
# cd cpufreq/
# ls
est.c           p4tcc.c         powernow.c      smist.c
# fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff             100% of 6379  B   23 kBps
# patch < /path/to/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
/path/to/powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff: No such file or directory.
# ls
est.c                                   powernow.c.pending_bit_stuck.diff
p4tcc.c                                 smist.c
powernow.c

Thank you,
-Abdullah