CPU Freq problem FC6

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 1 22:12:23 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:38:03AM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote:

 > Brought up 1 CPUs
 > speedstep-smi: you're trying to use this cpufreq driver on a Pentium 4-based CPU. Most likely it will not work.

This is bz 204477. Already fixed in CVS, will go out in the next update.

It's not actually changing your CPU speed, but exporting complete nonsense
to userspace.

 > Personally, I'd prefer to have scaling working only on battery power, but I'll settle for getting it to work *at all*.

Looking at your CPU flags..

 > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
 > pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr

You lack 'est' (speedstep), so you're out of luck.

	Dave

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