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Tue Oct 2 22:49:53 UTC 2012 Jason bacon wrote:
> Did you try enabling powerd?  ( powerd_enable=3D"YES" in rc.conf, "man=20=

> powerd" )
>=20
> I had this issue with an iBook some time ago, and Nathan W. pointed =
out=20
> that Macs boot at the lower CPU freq, so you have to change it =
manually=20
> with sysctl or run powerd to control it automatically.

I do have that in rc.conf, but powerd has no way to control the =
clockrate without cpufreq available.

# powerd
powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory