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Unable to dynamically set CPU frequency



I installed NetBSD on a HPNX9420 laptop with a dual core 
CentrinoT2600/2.16GHzCPU 
With the Generic kernel both cores revs up to maximum frequency and stays 
there. 
This result in high temperatures within a few minutes and the fan is constantly 
on 
max speed and noise. I installed estd-0.7 from pkgsrc. When I ran estd for the 
first 
time it said it can not guess CPU-scaling technology. Ok, so I built a new 
kernel 
where I enabled odcm0 in the conf file. est0 was already enabled. I rebooted 
and ran 
estd again. Same message, can not guess CPU-scaling. Now I built a new kernel 
where 
I added the following options to the conf file: ENHANCED_SPEEDSTEP, 
EST_FREQ_USERWRITE and INTEL_ONDEMAND_CLOCKMOD. Rebooted and ran estd again, 
same 
result, can not guess CPU-scaling.

This laptop runs pretty cool on other os' including Ubuntu and Windows so 
clearly 
THOSE os' are able to modulate the frequency. What are my options here? Are 
there 
other configuration options I should compile in? Any other programs out there I 
can try in order to control cpu frequency? Any help appriciated.

Here is some of the dmesg output

NetBSD 6.0.1 (HPNX9420)
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq nx9420 (ES446EA#ABM) (F.12)
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz, id 0x6e8
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHZ, id 0x6e8
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20110623
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <HP   ,309F   ,21060620>, AslId <HP   ,00000001>
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 100
acpiec0 at acpi0 (C006, PNP0C09): io 0x62,0x66
C01F (PNP0C01) at acpi0 not configured

This is the output from cpuid

Vendor ID: "GenuineIntel"; CPUID level 10

Intel-specific functions:
Version 000006e8:
Type 0 - Original OEM
Family 6 - Pentium Pro
Model 14 -
Stepping 8
Reserved 0

CLFLUSH instruction cache line size: 8
Initial APIC ID:1
Hyper threading siblings: 2

Feature flags bfe9fbff:
FPU
VME
DE
PSE
TSC
MSR
PAE
MCE
CX8
APIC
SEP
MTRR
PGE
MCA
CMOV
FGPAT
CLFSH
DS
ACPI
MMX
FXSR
SSE
SSE2
SS
HT
TM
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