On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 22:07 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > > >-----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 I have no clue. All I noticed is suspend stopped working. I'm on a P4 desktop, I don't use or need cpufreq. On the kernels that fail to suspend. This module is apparently loaded because rmmod acpi-cpufreq succeeds and I can suspend to my harts content. -Louis
