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On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:26:20 Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Beni wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > When reading through my dmesg, I found this sysctl error/message : sysctl
> > : hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest : Invalid argument. Now there is no mention what
> > so ever of that option in my /etc/sysctl.conf, so I didn't set it to C1
> > or anything else that seems to be invalid. So my question is : why (and
> > where) is it set 2 times and why is it the second time with an invalid
> > argument ? Neither the C1 nor the invalid argument seems to be doing any
> > harm to the (good) workings of the system...
>
> Check /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
>
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Kinsey

It seems a bit more complicated than that (to me at least...). I suppose it is 
related to this :
http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-stable/200512/msg00530.html

Thanks for the pointer !

Beni.