Cpuspeed and Dothan

[Nicholas Studt]

> sly wrote on Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:36:29 -0500
>
> Nicholas Studt wrote:
> > Cpuspeed does not work with either the kernel-2.6.9-1.667 or
> > kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 on my laptop. Dmesg output and the output
> > from/proc/cpuinfo are listed below. Are there any known work arounds
> > for this problem or is there a fix in the pipeline?
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> >>From dmesg: 
> > 
> > speedstep-centrino: no table support for CPU model "Intel(R)
> > Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz": 
> > 
> > speedstep-centrino: try compiling with
> > CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI enabled
> > 
> >>From /proc/cpuinfo:
> > 
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : 6
> > model           : 13
> > model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
> > stepping        : 6
> > cpu MHz         : 1795.741
> > cache size      : 2048 KB
> > fdiv_bug        : no
> > hlt_bug         : no
> > f00f_bug        : no
> > coma_bug        : no
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 2
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
> > pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2 
> > bogomips        : 3547.13
> > 
> > 
> 
> use this link:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg04371.html
> 
> it worked for me. make sure u put "speedstep-centrino" for pentium m 
> instead of "speedstep-smi"

Unfortunately this doesn't work as speedstep-centrino is built into the
FC3 kernels so the module is already loaded. Specifying the module
provokes cpuspeed to complain about the missing module.

-- 
  nicholas studt - 06 December 2004