cpurfreq attachment problems

[martinko]

Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
> I recently (Saturday) upgraded to the most recent RELENG_5 on my way to 
> RELENG_6 (which I did on Sunday). Along the way I picked up cpufreq, powerd, 
> etc.  I thought I would see if this worked with Cool-n-quiet on my AMD64 
> 3000+ system.  I am still running the i386 version, but I can't see that that  
> would cause the problem I am having.  I have been loading cpufreq as a module 
> and not compiling it into the kernel.  When the module loads I receive the 
> following:
> 
> powernow0: <Cool`n'Quiet K8> on cpu0
> device_attach: powernow0 attach returned 6
> 
> Not surprisingly, powerd now fails with:
> 
> Starting powerd.
> powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory
> 
> I was unable to find anything like this in the archives.  Does anyone have a 
> pointer?

i believe i had the same issue myself (pentium-m laptop). then i found 
out it works when run at boot time -- add it to your /boot/loader.conf 
and see.

martin