Bug 455124 - cpuspeed not working
Summary: cpuspeed not working
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cpuspeed
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Jarod Wilson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-12 11:48 UTC by Sander
Modified: 2008-07-13 01:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-07-13 01:55:04 UTC
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Description Sander 2008-07-12 11:48:59 UTC
Description of problem:
The CPU is always running on the full clock speed. Cpuspeed is unable to start.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cpuspeed v1.2.1

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system
2. Try to start cpuspeed (service cpuspeed start)
  
Actual results:
[root] service cpuspeed status
cpuspeed is stopped

Expected results:
[root] service cpuspeed status
cpuspeed started

Additional info:
Because cpuspeed is unable to start I tried to insert the module manually.

[root] modprobe acpi-cpufreq
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
(/lib/modules/2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):
No such device

[root] ls /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq
acpi-cpufreq.ko  powernow-k8.ko

System is unable to find acpi_cpufreq.ko, but it does exist.

* cpuinfo
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6750  @ 2.66GHz

Comment 1 Jarod Wilson 2008-07-13 01:55:04 UTC
That cpu should be using acpi-cpufreq. The "No such device" upon modprobing it
indicates either your bios is broken, or frequency scaling is disabled in the
bios. Please double-check your bios settings, and if they claim frequency
scaling is enabled, check for a bios update, apply it and see what you can see.
Chances are rather slim this is actually a software bug.


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