[Solved] powerd on a HP 6735s notebook

[thuglife]

Hello guys, i have some issues with an AMD Turion and powerd on a HP 6735s notebook.

When i start powerd i get the following error repeatedly and the machine hangs.

kernel: hwpstate0: set freq failed, err 6

> dmesg | grep -i cpu
CPU: AMD Turion(tm)X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-70 (2000.08-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
hwpstate0: <Cool`n'Quiet 2.0> on cpu0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!

> sysctl dev.cpu
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2000/15620 1750/13667 1500/11715 1250/9762 1000/5605 875/4904 750/4203 625/3503 500/2320 437/2030 375/1740 312/1450 250/1160 187/870 125/580 62/290
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us
dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1
dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us

# uname -a
FreeBSD hedland 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 15 19:15:05 EET 2010 root@hedland:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

Is this some kind of hw bug because i could not find much related info with google.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[gen]

Hi thuglife.

your sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels is
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2000/15620 1750/13667 1500/11715 1250/9762 1000/5605 875/4904 750/4203 625/3503 500/2320 437/2030 375/1740 312/1450 250/1160 187/870 125/580 62/290
so, 62MHz is very slow. So,
please write
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
and also
debug.hwpstate_verbose="1"
in /boot/loader.conf
and reboot. and see debug messages.

Cheers,
gen

[gen]

Hi thuglife.

my suggestions of solution are,
1) BIOS update?
2) one by one setting
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=2000
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1750
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1500
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1250
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1000
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=875
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=750
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=625
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=500
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=437
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=375
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=312
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=250
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=187
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=125
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=62
And if you cannot set a specifical freq
set sysctl debug.cpufreq.lowest=the threshold freq.
3) if you do 2) and can set lower freq than cannot,
please write hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf
and try again.
4) please write debug.hwpstate_verbose="1" in /boot/loader.conf and
see debug messages.
5) please show me powerd -v output with kernel messages.

Sorry for inconvenience.

Regards.

[gen]

Hi.
Maybe this is the solution.(workaround?)
just write
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
in /boot/loader.conf
and reboot

[thuglife]

Thank you very much for your reply, unfortunately
this was a friend's laptop and he installed another OS.

Power management was a big issue for him,
nevertheless i will try to test this and report back.

[mav@]

FreeBSD can manage power consumption quite effectively, if platform provides respective interfaces. Here is my laptop experience http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption.

[taromaru]

I know this is pretty much an old post, anyway, I happen to own a Compaq 6735s and stumbled upon the same issues.

I experienced this problem with both Ubuntu 10.04/32bit, OpenBSD 4.7/i386 and FreeBSD 8.0/amd64, release branches.

I just restored factory defaults and updated my BIOS, unluckily, the problem seems to stop when using Vista. I will next try it again with FreeBSD and report and post relevant output.

Thanks for your support :)

[thuglife]

Thank you guys, we tried FreeBSD again today and hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1" resolves this issue!

One more happy customer. Keep rockin!