A few problems with FC6?
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 7 22:53:01 UTC 2006
--- Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:22:31AM -0800, Antonio
> Olivares wrote:
>
> > error inserting acpi_cpufreq in
>
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq
> >
> > It goes by really fast. If it isn't identifiable
> from this I'll just
> > have to reboot 20 times to read it all.
> >
> > This is harmless. It just means that it is
> looking for acpi_cpufreq.ko in
>
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq.ko
>
> > The file could be there and there is a
> configuration file that points to it. In my case,
> since I have an AMD Athlon CPU, the driver should be
> powernow-k7 which is not the same as cpufreq.ko and
> it reports this error. There was a workaround from
> test-list archives,
> > Dave gave the following explanation
> >
>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-October/msg00373.html
> > and workaround was given by Jason and its
> bugzilla here
> >
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201832
>
> I think this needs a cpuspeed update. Changing the
> /etc/init.d/cpuspeed to
> do something like this should make it quiet again..
>
>
> --- /etc/init.d/cpuspeed 2006-07-29
> 03:01:23.000000000 -0400
> +++ /etc/init.d/cpuspeed 2006-11-07
> 16:31:48.000000000 -0500
> @@ -28,8 +28,15 @@
> /sbin/modprobe "$DRIVER"
> else
> if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then
> - # use ACPI as a fallback
> - /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq
> + EST=`grep flags /proc/cpuinfo | grep est`
> + if [ "$EST" ]; then
> + # use ACPI as a fallback
> + /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq
> + # even ACPI didn't work, remove it, and bail
> out.
> + if [ -d /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
> ]; then
> + /sbin/rmmod acpi-cpufreq
> + fi
> + fi
> else
> # This is a no-ACPI machine. Just exit.
> return 0
>
>
> Then we'll only use acpi-cpufreq on speedstep
> capable machines.
> (which is the only time you really want to be
> running it anyway
> if speedstep-centrino doesn't do the right thing).
>
> Let me know how that works out, and I'll get an
> update done if it dtrt.
>
> Dave
>
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Dave,
This fixes it!!! Excellent work. There are no more
error messages.
Regards,
Antonio
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