Description of problem: When booting FC5 Test 3 on VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175 I keep noticing the following error in the start up sequence: - FATAL: error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1996_FC5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpu_freq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device. This could be a dupe of bug 165494, but I'll let you guys be the judge of that. How reproducible: Every boot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot, watch the screen. Actual results: FATAL: error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1996_FC5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpu_freq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device. Expected results: No error. Hardware: NEC Versa M350, Intel Celeron M.
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Same problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.2008_FC5 (The only difference is the kernel version in the error message).
Same problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5 (The only difference is the kernel version in the error message).
Also present with kernel-2.6.15-1.2038_FC5.
what's the output of the /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/throttling files ?
I got these results from my system which is fully up to date with the development yum repository (kernel-2.6.15-1.2041_FC5). cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling state count: 8 active state: T0 states: *T0: 00% T1: 12% T2: 25% T3: 37% T4: 50% T5: 62% T6: 75% T7: 87% It's only a uniprocessor machine, so that's the only file I have. If you need any more info I'm more than happy to provide it.
Well, this is annoying. By rights acpi-cpufreq should work. The problem is we don't really know if it will work until we try and load it. I think for FC6 I'm going to change cpuspeed so that it doesn't activate by default.
I have this same problem with FC6 on a thinkpad x60 (it is an upgrade from my previous FC5 installation). My /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling looks the same as above for both CPU0 and CPU1
Same behaviour on FC6 on Thinkpad T42, kernel version: Linux bozy-nb 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU/throttling state count: 8 active state: T0 states: *T0: 00% T1: 12% T2: 25% T3: 37% T4: 50% T5: 62% T6: 75% T7: 87% Another comment: when I just installed FC6 - it worked (and the frequency control applet worked too). Problem started after update (although kernel was NOT updated).
Have an acer aspire 3000 I did not have this problem in FC5 but when I did a fresh install of FC6 I now do.
If folks would be so kind, please retest with the latest kernel and cpuspeed installed. There are a few updates that have been made recently, particularly to cpuspeed, that hopefully fix some of these issues...
It looks like the updates have fixed the bug for me, I'm no longer seeing the message on boot.
Closing, based on comment #12.