Re: Unable to get APM working -- help!

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Date: 12/26/04

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    Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:58:44 -0600 (CST)
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    > 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
    >
    Same result :/

    >> 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.

    Does it work on Pentium-M ?

    >
    >> 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?

    5.3-RELEASE from cd and a custom kernel I built. I've just tested, and the
    results are widly innacurate ONLY with ACPI turned on.. weird.

    >
    >> 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
    >

    Did you have to do anything in special to make -i 0 work? (it says device
    not configured to me.. perhaps I missed something)

    >> 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
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