[indiana-discuss] b111a: Power Management and nwam-issue ?

[Bill Nesheim]

Detlef Drewanz at Sun.COM wrote:
> Hi,
> with b111a now I can boot again my Toshiba M9.
>
> 1.I discoverred that Power Management seems no longer to work.
> (The fan is blowing like hell and "kstat -m cpu_info" shows in
> currentClock_Hz 2001000000
> but
> supported_frequencies_Hz
> 800000000:1200000000:1600000000:2000000000:2001000000
>
> New Bug with b111a ?

My R600 now boots as well with 101a, but I see much the same thing.   
System is idle, on battery power, but seems to be running at full speed:

nesheim at billn:~$ mpstat 5
CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt idl
  0  179   0    8   328  113  237    5   18    5    0   970    2   2   0  96
  1  165   0   12   137   67  243    8   18    5    0   979    2   2   0  97
CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt idl
  0 1170   0    6   468  228  482    5   50   23    0  3519    3   5   0  93
  1  811   0   35   141   67  526    7   45   23    0  1358    2   4   0  93
CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt idl
  0    0   0    2   308  103  163    1   16    2    0   394    1   1   0  98
  1    0   0    5   125   65  191    3   16    2    0  2066    1   1   0  99
^C
nesheim at billn:~$ pfexec kstat -m cpu_info | grep _Hz
    current_clock_Hz                1401000000
    supported_frequencies_Hz        
800000000:1200000000:1400000000:1401000000
    current_clock_Hz                1401000000
    supported_frequencies_Hz        
800000000:1200000000:1400000000:1401000000
nesheim at billn:~$ uname -a
SunOS billn 5.11 snv_111a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
nesheim at billn:~$
nesheim at billn:~$ prtdiag
System Configuration: TOSHIBA PORTEGE R600
BIOS Configuration: TOSHIBA Version 1.80 02/20/2009
...



>
> 2. I also have the impression that the boot up is much more disk-io
> intensiv and takes much more time (can't identify yet directly)
>
> 3. Also: After the boot I see dhcpagent/1 consuming 50 % CPU (looks like
> 1 core) and the nwam applet will not show up in the gnome panel. I first
> have to "kill -9" the dhcpagent, then the nwam applet comes up and the
> cpu consuming goes away.
> (Ok, that looks like a known bug)
>
> Any comments ? Anyone else seeing this too.
>
> Thanks
> Detlef
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