powerd won't start on 6.2 with core2duo CPU

[Boris Kochergin]

ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote:
> 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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Cool. You can have ACPI CPUs without ACPI CPU throttling support, and it 
appears that your system is one such type.

-Boris