iBook G4 - wrong CPU speed?

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no
Thu Jul 19 13:56:14 UTC 2012


On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:33:30 -0500
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> iBooks boot with the CPU at half speed. You can turn it back up 
> automatically (and control it based on load for power savings) by 
> running powerd or alternately set it by hand using the sysctl 
> dev.cpu.0.freq.

Aha!
root at kg-ibook# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 710

root at kg-ibook# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1420
dev.cpu.0.freq: 710 -> 1420
root at kg-ibook# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1420

Thanks!
-- 
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>


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