Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Nate, 2005/12/2, Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This work is easy, it's just grunt work implementing and testing to see > which is best. See this page for details on how to proceed: > > http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/powerd > > Wikitest seems to be down so here's the text only: > ht

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, 2005/12/2, Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't see why you can't run powerd more frequently, I do.. Unless your > > ACPI > > has a problem that means the transition is slow. > > I'm sure this could not be done under Linux without a lot of > problems (it is required to use the

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Bruno, > > 2) sorry what about the point that we were discussing above? The high > > number of transition you were explaining me, are present in the actual > > implementation of powerd, and if not, why? > > It's not present under powerd for the simple fact that to be efficient > in term of not

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Bruno, 2005/11/30, Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you load the cpufreq driver at boot time which include the est > driver as said before? It will replace the acpi_perf if appropriate. > > -- > Bruno Ducrot Yes cpufreq is loaded at boot time in /boot/loader.conf .However i don't know

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Bruno, > The ondemand governor is basically an implemation of the following > algorithm: > > There is a counter, say count. > > at each given fixed intervall: > if (idle less than a watermark) { > frequency full > reinitialise count to 10 > } else if (idle more than another watermark) {

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Nate, 2005/11/30, Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You should send the full output of "sysctl dev.cpu". There is no > cpufreq driver (est, acpi_perf, or other) driver running. Perhaps look > at your dmesg to see if one is probing/attaching. > > sysctl dev.cpu dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU d

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, 2005/11/30, Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You have to load the cpufreq.ko module at boot. > Adding that line: > cpufreq_load = "YES" > to /boot/loader.conf > should be OK. I have that line in that position, and it seems working. The point is that i would like to change the driver and us

Re: high CPU load due to powerd

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
2005/11/29, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, > i'm currently running 6.0-RELEASE and i activated powerd as the system > power control utility. However, using top, i'm seeing that powerd normally > uses nearly 18% of the CPU power, thus consuming en

cpufreq and changing driver

2005-11-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, having seen on the cpufreq(4) man page that there is more than one driver that is currently supported. In particular having a centrino processor, i would like to use the est driver. Currently, by default, the running driver is the one that comes with acpi (AFAIU), and i'm using powerd to cont

high CPU load due to powerd

2005-11-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm currently running 6.0-RELEASE and i activated powerd as the system power control utility. However, using top, i'm seeing that powerd normally uses nearly 18% of the CPU power, thus consuming energy and battery time (i'm using a laptop). Another point is that i'm seeing also more tha

Re: snd_ich and syntax error

2005-11-29 Thread Marco Calviani
29 Nov 2005 15:56:42 -0500, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, you need to end the file with a linefeed. > Do you get the error if you add a newline at the end? > You've got it! There were two spaces at the beginning of the next line. That was causing the syntax error Thanks ve

Re: snd_ich and syntax error

2005-11-29 Thread Marco Calviani
I use it on 6.0-Stable but the AC97 is still not working but I got no error > compiling it into the kernel > > João > > Hi, i'm attaching my config file. And the error i'm having is: config: MARCO1:283: syntax error However if i try to load the module with kldload snd_ich the sound card works

snd_ich and syntax error

2005-11-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i have a problem during the config(8) phase of a kernel configuration file. I would like to add in the kernel the device snd_ich with (as indicated in the handbook): device snd_ich However i've got a Syntax Error on that line when i try to config it. Any ideas for this behaviour