powerd won't start on 6.2 with core2duo CPU

[Boris Kochergin]

ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a server on the latest FreeBSD 6.2 from the RELENG_6_2 
> sources.  My SMP kernel sees my CPU (in dmesg) as:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz (1870.39-MHz 
> 686-class CPU)
>
> I am unable to start powerd, however, as I get the following error:
>
> Starting powerd.
> powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory
>
> On closer examination of the sysctl -a output, there are no 
> dev.cpu.X.freq values set.  Any ideas what is going on here?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
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Sounds like you need to get cpufreq support in your kernel. Does it work 
after you do "kldload cpufreq"?

-Boris