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Cc: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit
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On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Frank Shute wrote:

> $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep freq
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 250
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2333/22464 2041/19656 2000/22464 1750/19656  
> 1500/16848 1250/14040 1000/11232 750/8424 500/5616 250/2808

For some reason, versions of FreeBSD after 7.0-RELEASE think I have an  
odd-MHz CPU:

$ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2984/-1 2611/-1 2238/-1 1865/-1 1492/-1 1119/-1  
746/-1 373/-1

> I don't know if Kirk has fiddled with powerd. I just installed it &
> started it.

That's all I did.  I put 'powerd_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf and  
started it.
-- 
Kirk Strauser