>-----Original Message----- >From: Louis Garcia [mailto:louisg00 at bellsouth.net] >Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:00 PM >To: Dave Jones >Cc: Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Pavel Machek; linux-pm at lists.osdl.org >Subject: Re: [linux-pm] suspending to disk on FC6 not working > >On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 23:21 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:49:42PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote: >> > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 15:55 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> > > That's it.. This issue seems to be a side effect of >that patch... >> > > >> > > Louis: After normal boot of 2.6.18, if you are not >seeing the directory >> > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq >> > > >> > > Then try reverting this patch >> > > >http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2. >6.git;a=c >> > > ommit;h=911cb74bb9e77e40749abc2fca6fe74d87d940f3 >> > > >> > > and then check whether the suspend resume issue goes away. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Venki >> > >> > I reverted this patch and my suspend issue is gone. Though the >> > directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq is non >existent, with or >> > without this patch. >> >> Ok, I've backed that out in cpufreq.git, it'll go along to >Linus soon. >> If you build acpi-cpufreq as a module, and you modprobe acpi-cpufreq, >> does it fail silently ? Or does it revert us back to the behaviour >> where it's noisy again? >> >> Dave > >I had not noticed it was not loaded. This maybe a bigger problem. With >the latest FC6 kernel this module gets loaded and thus suspend fails. I >rebuilt the same kernel but plopped this patch in. The module does not >want to load: > ># /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq >FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq >(/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2708.cpufreq/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu >/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device > >This is why suspend works. But now this module won't load. > The module was not working on your laptop even when suspend was failing. That is what the absence of /sys.../cpufreq says. If this module was working for you earlier and stopped working recently or even otherwise both this and speedstep-centrino does not work on your platform, that is a separate issue. Was this module working and cpufreq supported on your system with any earlier kernels? Thanks, Venki
