ichss makes ThinkPad R31 toasty

[Jim Eberle <jim.eberle at fastnlight.com>]

> Jim Eberle wrote:
> > ...
> > Either the temperature readings are wrong (unlikely), or simply enabling
> > SpeedStep ICH is making the machine into a toaster. :)
> > ...
> > Obviously, w/o ichss (or est or acpi_perf which aren't supported by this
> > hardware) there are no ".freq/.freq_levels" sysctls, so cpufreq won't run. 
> 
> Try running powerd(8):
> echo 'powerd_enable=YES' >> /etc/rc.conf
> 
> -- 
> Nate

I would like to run powerd, but that program wants to see the
.freq/.freq_levels sysctls at startup.

I'm still trying determine why enabling ichss causes the machine's
temperature to spike from 57C to 90C. Weird.

Jim