Sudden CPU frequency scaling error.

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 12:23 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:32:31AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>  > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:59:36AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:35:42AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>  > >  > Suddenlly when I login to my FC4test3 machine as root a window with
>  > >  > the folloing error message appears:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > CPU frequency scaling unsupported
>  > >  > You will not be able to modify the frequency of your machine.  Your
>  > >  > machine may be misconfigured or not have hardware support for CPU
>  > >  > frequency scaling.
>  > >  > -- 
>  > >  > What have been done to cause this error to show up suddenly and what
>  > >  > can be done about it?
>  > > 
>  > > There were some driver updates recently, what does /proc/cpuinfo
>  > > say for your machine ?
> 
>  > I don't see what that has to do with it 
> 
> Ah wait, I misparsed your original mail as "it used to work,
> but now it doesn't", but your problem is actually
> "something is trying to do CPU scaling, but my hardware can't do it".
> 
> The warning is likely coming from the gnome cpu frequency scaling applet.
> I've no idea why its starting up automatically though if you didn't
> add it.
Shouldn't there be p4_clockmod support? (or is that not supported on the
2G model?) 
I'm also 'missing' this feature with FC4 (x86_64)...

Jurgen