Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s

James O'Gorman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Howells wrote:
> James O'Gorman wrote:
>>>> * Dual-core CPU
>>> Does CPU speed scaling work with both cores?
>>
>> How do you check that? (This is my first non-Mac laptop...)
> 
> Load the cpufreq.ko module, either at the loader prompt, or by adding
> 
[snip]
> 
> powernow0: <Cool`n'Quiet K8> on cpu0

I now get:

est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1

I've enabled powerd too so I'll see if it does anything :-)

> ... is the line from my AMD Sempron server.
> 
> If it is I guess you can try enabling powerd, something like
> 
> powerd_enable="YES"
> 
> in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Followed by
> 
> /etc/rc.d/powerd start
> 
> Then the CPU frequency should be automatically reduced when the load is
> low to reduce heat and power consumption.
> 
> Then something like this should give you an idea if it's working:
> 
> [chris@sauron ~]$ sysctl -a dev.cpu | grep freq
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 1800
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1800/59000 1000/21700

I get:

> sysctl -a dev.cpu | grep freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 125
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1667/31000 1458/27125 1333/22000 1166/19250
1000/13000 875/11375 750/9750 625/8125 500/6500 375/4875 250/3250 125/1625

There is also:
dev.est.0.freq_settings: 1667/31000 1333/22000 1000/13000
dev.est.1.freq_settings: 1667/31000 1333/22000 1000/13000

Although the dev.cpu0.freq was at 1667 earlier, so I dunno if powerd or
est has slowed it down or if it's just plain wrong! (This is while
plugged into AC.)

> (hopefully you'd see an entry for the second core also)

There are entries for dev.cpu.1, but no freq entries.

>> I've just got GNOME installed and I can't get esd to run at all, so I'm
>> guessing not. I've tried kldloading every sound module there is! Unless
>> it needs one that isn't built by default...
> 
> I'd probably expect it to use the snd_ich.ko driver.

Unfortunately not. I set snd_ich_load="YES" in loader.conf, but when I
log into KDE, Arts just tells me that /dev/dsp doesn't exist.

I tried setting hw.snd.maxautovchans to 4, just in case, but no luck.

James
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