Bug 120350

Summary:	powersave error message about ondemand governor/cpufreq
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Christian Deckelmann <christian.deckelmann>
Component:	Mobile Devices	Assignee:	Holger Macht <hmacht>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	All
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Found By:	IS&T	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Christian Deckelmann 2005-10-05 12:25:36 UTC

I am getting this error message after I have updated from 9.3 to 10.0: 
 
Oct  5 14:15:08 Lorentz [powersave]: ERROR (CPUFreq_Kernel:21) Can not set  
ondemand governor, maybe your cpufreq driver is too slow.  
Oct  5 14:15:08 Lorentz [powersave]: ERROR (CPUFreq_Kernel:23) Try  
CPUFREQ_CONTROL=userspace in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/cpufreq.  
Oct  5 14:15:08 Lorentz [powersave]: ERROR (PM_Interface:231) Cannot create  
cpufreq objects  
  
CPUFREQD_MODULE is set to "off".

Comment 1 Holger Macht 2005-10-14 14:21:50 UTC

To be sure: Your aim is to completely disable cpufreq?

I will take care.

Comment 2 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2005-10-14 19:49:02 UTC

Yes, this machine cannot do CPUFreq, it is a P4 Desktop.
Unfortunately we always try to initialize it and if it fails, we throw this error. Some more checking before trying to enable the ondemand governor would be good
(or maybe a "--no-cpufreq" option for the daemon which at least with "CPUFREQD_MODULE=off" gets appended in the startscript)

Comment 3 Holger Macht 2005-10-15 22:11:17 UTC

We plan to overwork the cpufreq-interface of the powersave daemon, so I will take account of this issue when I start implementing.

Comment 4 Holger Macht 2005-11-22 09:59:08 UTC

I added a configuration value to the daemon indicating whether cpufreq is enabled by configuration or not.

Just commited to cvs, so closing...