On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:32:00 +0100
Lukas Kaminski <lukas.ka@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> sorry! First post, already stultified...
> 
> Damn, i was sure i disabled HTML. Here is the text again:
> Lesson learned: Don't use a webfrontend.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> First of all i want to thank you for the beautiful OS you created!
> 
> A couple of days ago i installed a daily-snapshot of NetBSD-4 on my
> Toshiba Portege 3490ct.
> There are many things that worked out of the box (Sound, USB,
>   Bluetooth), but some others required some work (wpa_supplicant and
> ralink wlan). All in all most of the the components are functioning
> very good.
> 
> The only thing, which doesn't work properly is power management. There
> are a couple of problems:
> 
> - The processor is detected as 500MHz and i can't set it to 700MHz.
> 
> - The command
> # sysctl -w machdep.speedstep_state=1
> leads to: "machdep.speedstep_state: 0 -> 1" .
> But if i check this, it appears to remain 0.

piixpcib/ichlpcib drivers (those that use machdep.speedstep_state) only
can be put in low or high mode, by default they are at high mode (1)
if you set it to 0, it will be in low processor state.