Passive cooling problem with Athlon CPU

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd at milibyte.co.uk
Sat Jul 5 17:42:10 UTC 2008


On Saturday 05 July 2008, Mel wrote:

> And your /etc/sysctl.conf where you set this value? If it's not set
> by you, it may be set by /etc/rc.d/power_profile based on your
> /etc/rc.conf.

It's not set by me. All I have in /etc/sysctl.conf is:

vfs.usermount=1
kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
kern.ipc.shmall=32768

And, in case it helps, here's /etc/rc.conf:

defaultrouter="192.168.1.138"
hostname="curlew.lan"
ifconfig_nve0="inet 192.168.1.13  netmask 255.255.255.0"
keymap="uk.iso"
moused_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
scrnmap="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
exim_enable="YES"
anacron_enable="YES"
samba_enable="YES"
cupsd_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
lptcontrol_enable="YES"
background_fsck="NO"
named_enable="YES"
spamd_enable="YES"
spamd_flags="-c -u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd"
dumpdir="/usr/crash"
devfs_system_ruleset="system"
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"

> Try to get the 'untainted' output of `sysctl hw.acpi': 
> 0) reboot into single user
> 1) # fsck -p /
> 2) # mount -u /
> 3) # sysctl hw.acpi >/tmp/acpi.sysctl
> 4) # exit

> Then post /tmp/acpi.sysctl. My guess is no Cx values are obtained
> from the acpi, not even C1 (which is "normal operation" mode). This
> may or may not be related to your failing high precision timer.

Here's the output from single user mode:

hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S4 S5
hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE
hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1
hw.acpi.s4bios: 0
hw.acpi.verbose: 0
hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot: 0
hw.acpi.handle_reboot: 0
hw.acpi.reset_video: 0
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1
hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 51.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 68.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 70.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: 68.0C -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC1: 4
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC2: 3
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TSP: 60

-- 
Mike Clarke


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