Bug 160788

Summary:	cpuspeed will not start on a Pentium-M alviso with 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML chipset
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kjetil Nygård <kjetiln>
Component:	cpuspeed	Assignee:	Liang Zhang <lizhang>
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Version:	4	CC:	menscher, mshao
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Description Kjetil Nygård 2005-06-17 10:03:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I run 
[root@kjetil kjetil]# /etc/init.d/cpuspeed restart
[root@kjetil kjetil]#

Nothing happens, and the deamon doesn't start.

When i run cpuspeed the following happens:
[root@kjetil kjetil]# cpuspeed
Error: Could not open file for writing: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Error: No such file or directory
[root@kjetil kjetil]#


I guess the problem is support for my chipset or cpu is not recognized.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.21

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.cpuspeed
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  When i run cpuspeed the following happens:
[root@kjetil kjetil]# cpuspeed
Error: Could not open file for writing: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Error: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  That cpuspeed is running.

Additional info:

The output of /proc/cpuinfo is:
[root@kjetil kjetil]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1729.275
cache size      : 2048 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 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 3416.06

Which i guess says that it doesn't know a whole lot about the CPU.

Comment 1 Kjetil Nygård 2005-06-22 20:37:45 UTC

The problem is that the kernel doesn't load the right module: acpi_cpufreq
When this module is loaded, it starts CPU-speed automaticly.

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2005-09-24 00:08:40 UTC

will be fixed in cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.23_FC4 which should go to updates-testing real
soon.

Comment 3 Damian Menscher 2005-10-09 18:22:13 UTC

Seeing the same problem on RHEL4, but that doesn't have a cpuspeed rpm (cpuspeed
is part of kernel-utils).  Suggestions appreciated.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-22 02:19:46 UTC

Closing bugs in MODIFIED state from prior Fedora releases. If this bug persists
in a current Fedora release (such as Fedora Core 5 or later), please reopen and
set the version appropriately.