Cool 'n quiet and other AMD stuff

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 04:53 pm, Graham North wrote:
> Jung-uk wrote:
> I believe cpufreq.ko and powerd(8) will work just fine but it's not
> available in FreeBSD 5.4. From 6.0-BETA (or RELENG_5), try 'kldload
> cpufreq' and add 'powerd_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> Jung-uk:
> Are both of these needed?  Are they a matched pair then?

cpufreq(4) is a driver and powerd(8) uses the driver to control CPU 
frequency depending on the current CPU load.  So yes, they are a 
matched pair in some sense. ;-)

> Maybe I should look up in the man pages.

Yes, that's always the right thing.

Jung-uk Kim

> Thank you again for your help.
>
> Graham/