Hello Dave! On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 05:50:00PM +0300, Tomas.Linden@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I upgraded my Intel Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad Q8400 on my Intel DP35DP motherboard. > > I send this mail because I found this messages in my dmesg: > > > > p4-clockmod: Unknown CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > p4-clockmod: Unknown CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > p4-clockmod: Unknown CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > p4-clockmod: Unknown CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > ignore it, p4-clockmod is a waste of bits anyway. > > > cpuinfo and dmesg are at the end of this e-mail. I'm a bit worried because > > I bought the new CPU to have hardware virtualization support (VT-X). > > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=38512&processor=Q8400&spec-codes=SLGT6 > > but cpuinfo does not list the vtx flag for me. I'm using Fedora 13 and I > > tried booting to a F14 USB stick as well and neither shows the vtx flag. > > ... > > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 23 > > model name : 06/17 > ^^^^^ > This is a sign your BIOS has no idea what that CPU is. It should be a nice > non-numeric name. > > Which could explain why VTX isn't showing up. (Possibly also EST too, which > would be much better than using p4-clockmod). > Look for a BIOS update. Thanks for the hint about the BIOS being the cause of the problem! I was running the very latest BIOS available for this motheboard, but Intel suggested that I restore default BIOS settings and recovery reflash the same BIOS version that I already was using to have the correct microcode being loaded by the BIOS into the CPU. This solved this problem. Now the "p4-clockmod: Unknown CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" messages are gone from my dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo recognizes my CPU as processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz Best regards, Tomas Lindén -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I , I I Tomas Linden Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) I I Tomas.Linden@xxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 64 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2) I I phone: +358-9-191 505 63 FI-00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI I I fax: +358-9-191 505 22 Finland I I WWW: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~tlinden/eindex.html I --------------------------------------------------------------------------
