From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 Description of problem: When I switch-on the laptop from the battery (without the ac-adapter plugged-in) the frequency is stuck at 600Mhz.From dmesg I found a warning message: "Warning: CPU frequency is 1400000, cpufreq assumed 600000 kHz." If I restart the laptop everything return to work: - No warning message during start-up - I can switch frequency between 600Mhz - 1400Mhz When I switch-on the laptop with the ac-adapter plugged-in everything works at the first start-up. I encountered the same problem on a Fedora Core 2 The system is a Dell D600: - Pentium-M 1,4 Ghz - 256 Mb Ram Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541, kernel-2.6.9-1.649 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch-on the laptop from the battery without the ac-adapter plugged-in 2. cpufreq doesn't work 3. Restart the system 4. cpufreq works Additional info:
I see this with FC4T2 and subsequent devel kernels.
For me, it's not consistent when it happens. I just cold booted on battery and it recognized the speed steps fine. It just don't work all the time.
I'm using kernel 2.6.11-1.1363_FC4 and I still see this. Most of the time, a cold boot on battery breaks cpuspeed switching. Rebooting fixes it. FWIW, I recently upgraded to the latest BIOS but that didn't seem to help.
I have found a sort of workaround. I think that the problem is caused by the fact that the "scaling_max_freq" was set to the minimum frequency possible. If you "manually" set the "scaling_max_freq" to the maximum frequency of your system (echo -n max_freq_here > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq) and then you restart the cpuspeed daemon everything restart to work properly
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
I still have the problem with FC4 but the work around from #4 works fine. I can't change the version of the bug though as I am not the owner or sufficiently empowered.
[This comment has been added as a mass update for all FC4 kernel bugs. If you have migrated this bug from an FC3 bug today, ignore this comment.] Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update. If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE* installing any kernel updates. If in doubt, you can recreate this file using.. mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak kudzu Thank you.
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
The 1526 kernel does not fix the problem.
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.
The 1637 kernel doesn't fix the problem.
Sadly, on a majority of systems, the tables that the driver is dependant upon are only created once at power-on time by the BIOS. Complaining to the hardware vendor that there are missing P-states whilst on battery power is the only thing that's going to make it work consistently regardless of power state. I'm puzzled by this message though.. "Warning: CPU frequency is 1400000, cpufreq assumed 600000 kHz." Did this happen after you started setting "scaling_max_freq" ? If so, I think it's because the hardware isn't actually scaling.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Still happens for me with the 1830 kernel.
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
I have tested the new kernel (2.6.18-1.2200.fc5). The problem still remains. After a cool boot from battery the scaling_max_freq is set to 600000. If the system is restarted the scaling_max_freq in correctly set to 1400000.
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8?
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