Well I have good news foe anyone experiencing the same problems. After researching the interrupts a bit more I learned about acpiprt. I disabled acpiprt and acpimadt in the kernel and it works. X lagginess is also gone.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, The Wraith <wraith0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys. > First of all it's nice to be here. I had some previous experience with > BSD's, I decided to give OpenBSD a go and I'm not one bit dissapointed. > I installed 4.4 a few days ago( had not known at the time that the next > will be released the second day ). > Was surprised to see that cpu scaling worked out of the box. That was not > the case with any Linux I ever used, or with FreeBSD. > Xorg -configure actually worked and I had a working window manager in 1 > minute. > > Problems: > 1. I set apmd_flags to "-C" in rc.conf, rebooted and automatic scaling > worked. then I decided to upgrade to 4.5. I copied all the sets off the 4.5 > cd to /sets, booted the 4.5 bsd.rd, started updating from disc, mounted > /sets...it all worked ok...or so it seemed. > Without any other change I booted to 4.5, just to see my cpu was at full > capacity when idling in the console (1.800 MHz). `sysctl hw` shows all the > scaling stuff, and I can use `sysctl hw.setperf=0` to get it to 800MHz > (minimum and cool), but apmd does not do it automatically. So for now I have > it with "-L" (manual mode) but I'd like apmd to do this automatically. > I should point out that I disabled apm in the kernel and left acpi enabled > (apm would crash on boot if enabled..this was a problem with everything I > used before..it's my laptop's fault). But I did the same for 4.4 too and it > worked...so something went wrong with the update. > After some advice, I just updated to the latest snapshot, which should > contain all the patches, including number 003 from the 4.5 erata which I was > told could have an impact on my problem. Well it didn't. I have the same > problem. > 2. X is rather slow (even when I go up to 1.800MHz). Used radeon and > radeonhd and same thing (radeonhd is a bit faster though...). Tried enabling > XXA, EXA, no xorg.conf at all, tried different things but same problems. Is > this a problem for everyone else? > > As I was writing this email, someone on #openbsd suggested I look at `top` > too see if apmd actually works, but system is under heavy load thus > upscales. He was correct. My cpu interrupt is at 82.9% (which he said is > really really bad). > If this is correct than it could explain both my problems (slowness and > apmd keeping cpu at full). What could be causing this? (I killed X and tried > top and it's still up so I'm guessing it's not X). > > Thanks for your time.
