Subject: Re: AMD Power Now!
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/09/2002 10:59:44
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:08:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:08:44PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > I noticed the same thing after installing zo.. er, xp on an Athlon box.
> > The CPU barely gets warm, but when I was running NetBSD on the same
> > machine, CPU temperature was 50...60 °C..
> 
> Do you have APM defined in the kernel ? If so, maybe you also have
> APM_NO_IDLE ?
> The BIOS has to support APM too.

apm0    at mainbus0                     # Advanced power management
#options        APM_NO_IDLE             # Don't call BIOS CPU idle function

  -jm