Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load

[Federico Giacomini <giacof@tiscali.it>]

> >You mean the module speedstep-centrino is deprecated now, and 
> >I should use acpi_cpufreq on any Pentium M laptop? Even if my 
> >kernel is 2.6.17?
> >
> 
> No. speedstep centrino is deprated only in 2.6.20 onwards.
> 2.6.17 acpi-cpufreq or speedstep-centrino any one of them can work 
for
> you
> Depending on what your BIOS ACPI support has. So, please try both
> acpi-cpufreq
> and speedstep_centrino (with SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI enabled in 
config).
> If both of them does not work, please go ahead and open a bug at
> bugme.osdl.org
> under ACPI related bugs. We can track the issue down systematically 
that
> way.
> 
> Also, if none of those two drivers work, it will be interesting to 
know
> whether it is a recent regression or it did not work on this 
particular
> system
> with earlier kernels as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Venki
> 

I am currently using acpi-cpufreq, which seems to work fine. But I 
thought speedstep-centrino was more specific and suited to Centrino 
processors, that's why I was quite concerned about that failure when 
trying to load the module.
So, just a misunderstanding about those two drivers... sorry!

Thank you,
Federico


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