Re: Unable to get APM working -- help!

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 12/26/04

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Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:13:10 +1030

    On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:25, security@revolutionsp.com wrote:
    > Indeed, I do have a /dev/apm with APM off and ACPI on, but..
    >
    > APM version: 1.2
    > APM Management: Enabled
    > AC Line status: unknown
    > Battery Status: charging
    > Remaining battery life: invalid value (0xffffffff)
    > Remaining battery time: unknown
    > Number of batteries: 0
    >
    > # acpiconf -i0
    > acpiconf: get battery info (0) failed: Device not configured
    >
    > o CPU Frequency: 1600ghz
    > o Battery left : -1%
    > o Battery time : -1 hrs
    > o Wireless stat: Radio is ON

    Try acpiconf -i 1

    > Neither APM or acpiconf or estctrl (it's a port) are doing their jobs.
    > estctrl was correctly lowering the CPU clock to 600ghz, when there was no

    I prefer acpi_pcc http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/ which I
    believe does the same thing but only needs a kernel module to work.

    > load, and maxing it (1.6GHz) under load, but with ACPI off. With ACPI on
    > it's always at 1.6GHz. Plus, I've noticed the 'top' CPU values are plain
    > wrong. I was compiling thunderbird, xmms, and firefox and it showed all
    > processes with 0.00% CPU.

    Do your kernel and userland match?

    > Are there any battery status/etc KDE applications? I've searched, and
    > found none.

    There is a klaptop system tray doodad which works for me, although..
    [inchoate 12:10] /usr/src >acpiconf -i 0
    Battery 0 information
    Design capacity: 71590 mWh
    Last full capacity: 71590 mWh
    Technology: secondary (rechargeable)
    Design voltage: 11100 mV
    Capacity (warn): 3000 mWh
    Capacity (low): 1000 mWh
    Low/warn granularity: 200 mWh
    Warn/full granularity: 200 mWh
    Model number: DELL 0004P2
    Serial number: 1975
    Type: LION
    OEM info: Sony
    State:
    Present Rate: Unknown
    Remaining Capacity: 71590 mWh
    Volt: 12537 mV
    [inchoate 12:10] /usr/src >apm
    APM version: 1.2
    APM Management: Enabled
    AC Line status: on-line
    Battery Status: high
    Remaining battery life: 100%
    Remaining battery time: unknown
    Number of batteries: 2
    Battery 0:
            Battery Status: high
            Remaining battery life: 100%
            Remaining battery time: 0:00:00
    Battery 1:
    not present
    Resume timer: unknown
    Resume on ring indicator: disabled

    > Here is a dmesg:
    >
    > Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
    > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
    > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
    > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 25 03:41:40 WET 2004
    > hugo@porntatil.bsdlan.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/laptop-kernel
    > WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
    > WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance.
    > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
    > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (1598.65-MHz 686-class CPU)
    > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6d6 Stepping = 6
    >
    > Features=0xafe9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA
    >T,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE> real memory = 535691264
    > (510 MB)
    > avail memory = 514539520 (490 MB)
    > acpi0: <ACER Kestrel> on motherboard
    > acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
    > acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1d> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
    > Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
    > acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
    > cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
    > acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
    > pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
    > pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
    > agp0: <Intel Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff at
    > device 0.0 on pci0
    > pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
    > pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
    > pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
    > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
    > pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
    > uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1800-0x181f irq
    > 6 at device 29.0 on pci0
    > uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
    > usb0: USB revision 1.0
    > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
    > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
    > uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1820-0x183f irq
    > 6 at device 29.1 on pci0
    > uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
    > usb1: USB revision 1.0
    > uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
    > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
    > uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1840-0x185f irq
    > 6 at device 29.2 on pci0
    > uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
    > usb2: USB revision 1.0
    > uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
    > uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
    > pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
    > pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
    > pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
    > bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xd0204000-0xd0205fff irq 6 at
    > device 2.0 on pci2
    > miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
    > bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
    > bmtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
    > bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:9f:6a:8e:1c
    > bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > pci2: <network> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
    > cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd0209000-0xd0209fff irq 10 at device 6.0
    > on pci2
    > cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
    > pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
    > fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem
    > 0xd0200000-0xd0203fff,0xd020a000-0xd020a7ff irq 10 at device 6.2 on pci2
    > fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
    > fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
    > fwohci0: EUI64 00:c0:9f:00:00:32:14:de
    > fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
    > fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
    > firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
    > fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
    > if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:32:14:de
    > fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:32:14:de
    > sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
    > fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
    > fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
    > firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
    > firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
    > pci2: <mass storage> at device 6.3 (no driver attached)
    > isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
    > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
    > atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port
    > 0x1860-0x186f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
    > ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
    > ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
    > pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
    > pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
    > pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
    > acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
    > acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
    > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
    > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
    > kbd0 at atkbd0
    > atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
    > psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
    > npx0: [FAST]
    > npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
    > npx0: INT 16 interface
    > orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
    > 0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdf800-0xdffff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0
    > pmtimer0 on isa0
    > ppc0: parallel port not found.
    > sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
    > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
    > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    > sio0: port may not be enabled
    > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
    > sio0: type 8250 or not responding
    > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
    > sio1: port may not be enabled
    > vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
    > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1598649123 Hz quality 800
    > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
    > WARNING: apm_saver module requires apm enabled
    > IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
    > acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
    > ad0: 57231MB <TOSHIBA MK6025GAS/KA200A> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master
    > UDMA100 acd0: DVDR <Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-852S/PRS9> at ata1-master UDMA33
    > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
    > Enhanced Speedstep running at 1600 MHz
    > iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG MiniPCI> mem 0xd0208000-0xd0208fff irq
    > 10 at device 4.0 on pci2
    > iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:8d:db:e3
    > iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
    > iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
    > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
    > iwi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff mem
    > 0xd0000800-0xd00008ff,0xd0000c00-0xd0000dff irq 10 at device 31.5 on pci0
    > pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
    > pcm0: <Unknown AC97 Codec (id = 0x43585430)>
    >
    > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:20, security@revolutionsp.com wrote:
    > >> Still, /dev/apm*'s never show up. Except if I actually disable APM and
    > >> enable ACPI instead, /dev/apm will show.. but no /dev/apmctl.
    > >>
    > >> I'm new to the laptop world and I really would like to enable power
    > >> saving
    > >> features on this laptop.. I managed to get est/estctrl running, and it
    > >> was
    > >> changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to the load, but when I
    > >> disabled APM and enabled ACPI this ceases to work and the CPU will
    > >> always
    > >> run at 1600ghz. Also, acpiconf -i0 says device not configured..
    > >
    > > Use ACPI.
    > > It will provide an APM like interface (/dev/apm) for userland apps to use
    > > to
    > > get info.
    > >
    > > It's possible your laptop doesn't even _do_ APM :)
    > >
    > >> As far as I was able to see, most battery monitoring stuff (integrated
    > >> on
    > >> KDE and all) will depend on APM.. So I'd really like to enable it!
    > >
    > > ACPI will allow you to do this plus a lot more.
    > >
    > > If you want to do things based on power related state changes (eg lid
    > > close,
    > > power button press, AC unplugged etc..) you can use devd which can
    > > respond to
    > > ACPI events.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
    > > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
    > > "The nice thing about standards is that there
    > > are so many of them to choose from."
    > > -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

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