Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load

Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load

[Federico Giacomini]

> >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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Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Federico Giacomini wrote:
> hello again,
>
> the error message indicates your address, if you have no time to deal with that right now, please give me any other name to contact about the bug.
>   

Hi,

The cpufreq list is the right for bugs in this driver.  It's actually
obsolete now, replaced by the acpi driver, but if you're seeing a
message telling you to mail me, you must be using a fairly old version.

    J
> Regards,
>
> Federico
>
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 22:41, F. G. wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm addressing you because I got the following error lines in my kernel's log:
>>
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.623000] CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'acpi'
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.623000] class_uevent - name = acpi
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.623000] class_device_create_uevent called for acpi
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.705000] bus type 'i2c' registered
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.705000] bus i2c: add driver i2c_adapter
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.705000] device class 'i2c-adapter': registering
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.774000] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.973000] cpufreq-core: trying to register driver centrino
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.973000] cpufreq-core: adding CPU 0
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] speedstep-centrino: Invalid control/status registers (1 - 1)
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] speedstep-centrino: <6>speedstep-centrino: invalid ACPI data
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] speedstep-centrino: <6>speedstep-centrino: found unsupported CPU with Enhanced SpeedStep: send /proc/cpuinfo to Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] cpufreq-core: initialization failed
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] cpufreq-core: no CPU initialized for driver centrino
>> Mar 20 22:22:13 R3d-574r kernel: [4294692.974000] cpufreq-core: unregistering CPU 0
>>
>> I installed Kubuntu Edgy (originally kernel 2.6.17.11) on my Centrino laptop (Compal DL76). The problem occurred after downloading kernel source 2.6.17.14 and compiling it with the speedstep_centrino_acpi option enabled and the default acpi_cpufreq one disabled.
>> Here is my /proc/cpuinfo output:
>>
>> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 13
>> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
>> stepping        : 8
>> cpu MHz         : 1862.355
>> cache size      : 2048 KB
>> fdiv_bug        : no
>> hlt_bug         : no
>> f00f_bug        : no
>> coma_bug        : no
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 2
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up est tm2
>> bogomips        : 3727.79
>>
>> Thank you for your time and consideration.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Federico Giacomini
>>
>>     

Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load

[Federico Giacomini]

On Sunday 08 April 2007 02:09, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Federico Giacomini wrote:
> > hello again,
> >
> > the error message indicates your address, if you have no time to deal with that right now, please give me any other name to contact about the bug.
> >   
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The cpufreq list is the right for bugs in this driver.  It's actually
> obsolete now, replaced by the acpi driver, but if you're seeing a
> message telling you to mail me, you must be using a fairly old version.
> 
>     J
> > Regards,
> >
> > Federico
> >

Hi, thank you for replying.
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?

RE: speedstep-centrino fails to load

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk 
>[mailto:cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk] On Behalf Of 
>Federico Giacomini
>Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:08 AM
>To: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
>Subject: Re: speedstep-centrino fails to load
>
>On Sunday 08 April 2007 02:09, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Federico Giacomini wrote:
>> > hello again,
>> >
>> > the error message indicates your address, if you have no 
>time to deal with that right now, please give me any other 
>name to contact about the bug.
>> >   
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The cpufreq list is the right for bugs in this driver.  It's actually
>> obsolete now, replaced by the acpi driver, but if you're seeing a
>> message telling you to mail me, you must be using a fairly 
>old version.
>> 
>>     J
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Federico
>> >
>
>Hi, thank you for replying.
>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