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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:53:01 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        David Collins <davidcollins001@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: powerd
Message-ID:  <20090408155301.GA71743@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <1b30fd140904080837h2aa48acema46be89866d7a617@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:37:35PM +0100, David Collins wrote:
> > Frequency control is not supported in your case.  You must
> > have dev.cpu.0.freq and so on.  What kind of processor do
> > you have?  Does it support "powernow", "cool'n'quiet" or
> > similar features?
> 
> CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
>   Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>


AFAIK that processor does not support changing frequency or voltage on the fly.

You will not be able to get powerd to do anything useful with that CPU.



> 
> 
> > Also, make sure that you have "device cpufreq"
> > kernel configuration.  If you don't have it, try to load
> > the module:  kldload cpufreq
> 
> I have device cpufreq in the kernel conf and I loaded/unloaded it separately.
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