powerd won't start on 6.2 with core2duo CPU

[ECEG / Daniel Duerr]

Hi Boris,

This did the trick...  I recompiled my kernel with device cpufreq and  
it works now.  I guess this CPU appears as a non-ACPI CPU type?

Cheers,
Daniel


On Aug 5, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Boris Kochergin wrote:

> 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



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