Sudden CPU frequency scaling error.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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 ?
> 
> 		Dave
I don't see what that has to do with it but here is the output you
requested:
[root at Hardy ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 1994.644
cache size      : 512 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 pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 3948.54

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