Bug 120350 - powersave error message about ondemand governor/cpufreq
Summary: powersave error message about ondemand governor/cpufreq
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Mobile Devices (show other bugs)
Version: RC 4
Hardware: 32bit All
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Holger Macht
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Reported: 2005-10-05 12:25 UTC by Christian Deckelmann
Modified: 2007-06-05 10:01 UTC (History)
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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...