Right driver for cpufreq

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 26 22:10:13 UTC 2004



On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Mitko Haralanov wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:35:08 -0500 (CDT)
> Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > FC1 requires
> > 'modprobe speedstep-centrino'
> 
> 	I don't even have speedstep-centrino in the modules directory

Yeah - in FC2 - its compiled into the kernel (hence not a module)

> 
> > - Your CPU is 1GHz and always at that speed?
> 
> 	Yes, as far as I can tell
> 
> > - do you have /proc/cpufreq ? (its on fc1 - don't remember fc2)
> 
> 	No and I could not find anything /proc that could resemble that
> 
> > - is /etc/init.d/cpuspeed daemon running? (if not - try
> > starting/restarting)
> 
> 	The first thing that cpuspeed daemon does is check whether 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/scaling_driver exists (it doesn't) and if
> not tries to load a driver. But since none of the drivers work, the load
> fails and cpuspeed exits.

Sorry - I have no additional info to help..

Satish




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