Powerd not working with C2D CPUs ?

Zoran Kolic zkolic at sbb.co.yu
Sun Oct 21 06:27:51 PDT 2007


> > > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2001/32000 2000/31000 1750/27125 1600/22000 
> > > 1400/19250 1200/13000 1050/11375 900/9750 800/10000 700/8750 600/7500 
> > > 500/6250 400/5000 300/3750
> > > dev.cpufreq.0.%driver: cpufreq
> 
> Nope. cpufreq still must be added or loaded. Some laptops (including my
> T43 with updated BIOS) seem to show this and powerd works on them
> without powerd. If I load powerd, I lose all of the energy values and
> ACPI thinks that the top CPU speed is 1500, not 2000. In other words,
> loading cpufreq breaks power management. 

Maybe those lines in rc.conf culd help:
  performance_cx_lowest="LOW"
  economy_cx_lowest="LOW"
My old celeron M of 1400 works happily at 174 and never gets
over 30 C. Cpufreq in kernel and powerd loaded. 6.2.

                               Zoran



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