Dell D810/FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE/interrupts??

Milan Obuch current at dino.sk
Fri Mar 3 10:41:46 GMT 2006


On Friday 03 March 2006 11:19, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Anthony Maher wrote:
> > In /etc/rc.conf, commenting out the following solved the problems.
> >
> > ###performance_cx_lowest="LOW"
> > ###economy_cx_lowest="LOW"
> >
> > sorry for the noise.
>
>   It's not a noise, it's a real problem. My ASUS M5A notebook (Intel
> Pentium M CPU model 750 1.86GHz), usually quite fast machine, becomes
> dead slow if I leave now-default settings *_cx_lowest="LOW". Every
> keystroke takes almost second to get echo on idle machine. I understand,
> ACPI developers want to test non-C1 cx states, that's why default
> settings have changed. But with this level of performance everybody will
> just switch back to C1.
>

Could you eventually try another Cx state? I have similar trouble with VIA 
Samuel based system, available states are C1, C2 and C3. LOW means C3, but 
this is terribly slow and unusable, in effect. C2, set via sysctl works well.
I think ACPI developers would like to know our experiences.
Regards,
Milan


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