Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114166
cpuspeed fails to start without modprobing additional modules
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Hardware: Dell Latitide D600 Kernel: kernel-2.6.1-1.53 On my Dell Latitude D600 laptop, cpuspeed fails to start even with the speedstep-centrino module in the DRIVER= line in /etc/cpuspeed.conf. The cpufreq_userspace module needs to be loaded as well for cpuspeed to function. As a work-around, I modified /etc/init.d/cpuspeed to treat the DRIVER= line from cpuspeed.conf as a list of modules, and modprobe each accordingly. Another work-around is to modprobe cpufreq_userspace first, then re-run /etc/init.d/cpuspeed manually. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.115 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Power on the machine, cpuspeed fails to start due because cpufreq_userpsace isn't present. Additional info:
Created attachment 97211 [details] Patch to /etc/init.d/cpuspeed
I've got the same problem right now.
From rpm -q --changelog kernel : * Tue Jan 27 2004 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Update to 2.6.2-rc2-bk1 - Set default CPUFREQ governor to userspace instead of performance. This eliminates the problem I had with cpuspeed starting. Given that, I'd consider this closed.