On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:59:36AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:35:42AM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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@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 -- ======================================================================= Be warned that typing \fBkillall \fIname\fP may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user. (From the killall manual page) ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484