ACPI doesn't work?

[Nate Lawson]

Paul van der Linden wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed a freebsd distribution on a real computer for the
> first time (I only have run freebsd in vmware).
> The problem is, that acpi doesn't seem to work. My fans are constantly
> working on fullspeed, and when I run powerd -v it gives some errors
> while throttling my cpu:
> server# powerd -v
> powerd: cannot read AC line status, using default settings
> idle time > 90%, decreasing clock speed from 1862 MHz to 1629 MHz
> powerd: error setting CPU frequency 1629: Device not configured

Try loading the cpufreq.ko kernel module.

> The dmesg.boot gives some errors:
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR

harmless.

> acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT
> 
> Is there some way to fix this, or isn't my motherboard supported?
> My motherboard is an Asus P5M2-M with Intel 3000 MCH chipset, and I've
> included the ACPI part of the dmesg.boot:

That doesn't help.  How about output of devinfo -rv and a link to your
ASL (acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 > asus-p5m2.gz)?

-- 
Nate