On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:13 +0100, Johannes Adams wrote: > > Linux kernel version 2.6.16 broke cpufreq support for me. I can no > > longer load the module acpi-cpufreq, which means that software such as > > cpufreqd doesn't work. > > I had the same problem on a MSI s260 (Medion version). Loading the > modules speedstep-centrino instead of acpi-cpufreq solved it for me. > Without being too much into it, I could imagine it hase something to do > with this patch: http://lwn.net/Articles/170568/ > > Especially the last part is interesting: "For Linux it means that on > systems which could run either the acpi-cpufreq or speedstep-centrino > drivers, only the (preferred) speedstep-centrino driver will load and > acpi-cpufreq will not load. The possible side-effect is if somebody > configures only the non-preferred acpi-cpufreq, it will not load." > > I hope this helps.
Yes, it helped. Thanks! This bug could probably be marked INVALID or similar. Perhaps there should be a note i NEWS.gz about the change. > Apart from that: thanks a lot to the kernel maintainers that they got > 2.6.16 so fast in debian! Great! Indeed! Cheers, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
