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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: VDQ : Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
From:       Dave Jones <davej () redhat ! com>
Date:       2005-12-31 20:09:40
Message-ID: 20051231200940.GA16308 () redhat ! com
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:41:30AM -0500, Beartooth SenectoFlatuloid wrote:
 > 
 >         What I find on googling is way over my head, alas!
 > 
 >         I installed fedora 4 on three machines on my desk, way back
 > when it was new. Everything worked fine. Ran nightly yum updates ever
 > since. I now have well over a dozen kernels.
 > 
 >         Then I had to replace my flat panel monitor (a BenQ FP767,
 > which died; the shop couldn't fix it) with another (a ViewSonic VG910b
 > -- the only one, of several the shop had, which was listed under Main
 > Menu > Desktop > System Settings > Display > Hardware > Configure).
 > 
 >         At first, my main machine and one old one took the canned
 > settings, the main machine fine, the old one (a P2) usably; but the
 > other old P2 was unusable.
 > 
 >         I fussed and fiddled, figuring out eventually for instance
 > that any changes had to be made completely without the KVM switch :
 > not only monitor but also keyboard and mouse plugged directly to the
 > machine being changed.
 > 
 >         Finally I got the *other* old P2 to display usably -- and then
 > the one that had been usable ceased to be.
 > 
 >         On the current problem machine, I get the error below when I
 > reboot. It follows below "Checking for new hardware" (which gets
 > marked OK)
 > 
 > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
 > (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):No such device.

There's an update to 'cpuspeed' in updates-testing that should make
this go away.  It's an overly verbose harmless warning that your system
doesn't support dynamically changing its CPU speed.

		Dave

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