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Date:      Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:17:47 -0400
From:      Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
To:        ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: powerd won't start on 6.2 with core2duo CPU
Message-ID:  <46B668AB.9060507@acm.poly.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A15E9AB4-D676-4120-AD7F-C3B57CA95D6D@emeraldcityeg.com>
References:  <A15E9AB4-D676-4120-AD7F-C3B57CA95D6D@emeraldcityeg.com>

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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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