CPU frequency on FreeBSD 5.4

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Wed Jun 8 18:59:20 GMT 2005


Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote:
> I have a problem with my cpu frequency levels when booting while power
> cable is unplugged.
> When the cable is plugged the max cpu frequency is 2.0GHz and it's correct.
> But when booting unplugged the max cpu frequency is 1.2GHz !
> 
> How can i solve this

In 5.x, you can't change this.  The BIOS is setting the CPU speed to the 
lower value outside of FreeBSD.  Soon the 6.x full support for cpufreq 
will be MFCd and that will allow you to adjust values as you wish.

-- 
Nate


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