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On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:44:43PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > > Do you have any info in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq ? > > No, not with just acpi-cpufreq loaded. With the help of Zwane, I've > discovered that if I unload acpi-cpufreq, I *can* load p4-clockmod, and then > the directory you mention appears, and I can configure governors, and life > is good. This all on 2.6.18-rc3. Right, cpufreq drivers aren't 'stackable'. > Do I understand correctly that acpi-cpufreq is supposed to offer comparable > features? If the BIOS supports the relevant ACPI tables. > Perhaps acpi-cpufreq *has* loaded, but did not find the proper hooks, but > has now registered itself, thus blocking p4-clockmod? When everything is > in-kernel, acpi-cpufreq might register itself first, which would lead to the > same thing. Normally, if the necessary BIOS bits aren't there, then acpi-cpufreq will fail to register. For some reason it sounds like it believes that everything went ok. I wonder if something changed in acpi recently that caused this change in behaviour ? Len ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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