FreeBSD9 running CPUs slow on PowerMac7,2

Matthew Rezny mrezny at hexaneinc.com
Tue Oct 2 23:17:23 UTC 2012


Tue Oct 2 22:49:53 UTC 2012 Jason bacon wrote:
> Did you try enabling powerd?  ( powerd_enable="YES" in rc.conf, "man 
> powerd" )
> 
> I had this issue with an iBook some time ago, and Nathan W. pointed out 
> that Macs boot at the lower CPU freq, so you have to change it manually 
> 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



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