Re: A few problems with FC6?

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--- Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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