From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Piel Subject: Re: ondemand and p3-m Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:15:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43D16EF8.3070502@tremplin-utc.net> References: <1137795365.28411.30.camel@littledragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1137795365.28411.30.camel@littledragon> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: Niko Ehrenfeuchter Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk 20.01.2006 23:16, Niko Ehrenfeuchter wrote/a =C3=A9crit: > Hi all, >=20 > I'm currently trying to get the ondemand-governor working with my PIII-M > (1133 MHz). The system is a ThinkPad X24 using the Intel 830 chipset, > kernel 2.6.15.1 with the corresponding (stable) acpi-patch. >=20 > While using the speedstep-ich module works for userspace stuff, echoing > "ondemand" into scaling_governor simply yields an invalid argument > error. Latency issue, I assume...? Turning on cpufreq's debug mode > doesn't tell anything why it won't use the ondemand gov. >=20 > Looked through the archive for that issue, but I haven't been _that_ > successful, since it lacks some kind of search function... The only > thing I've discovered was a thread in october where Eric Piel posted a > patch for the first-generation 440BX speedstep. Is this patch included > in the current kernel? Should it work for me too? >=20 > Any hints? Hi! Which driver do you use? Is it speedstep-ich? If so, it's now available=20 in vanilla kernel since... 2.6.16-rc1, slightly too bleding edge for=20 common mortals but it means it's coming soon! If you don't want to wait, you can just apply the 2 patches of Mattia=20 Dongili on a 2.6.15. ("Move PMBASE..." and "Measure transition latency=20 at driver initialization" _updated_) c u Eric