Re: [ACPI-sppt] AC-Adapter

Alexander Wigen <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:16:25 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 11 September 2003 17:30, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> > One more thing I don't understand is this kernel message:
> > cpufreq: No CPUs supporting ACPI performance management found.
> >
> > #uname -a
> > Linux berbara 2.6.0-test5-bk1 #3 Thu Sep 11 12:32:55 EST 2003 i686 Mobile
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> Could you please try this patch:
> http://www.brodo.de/patches/2003-09-09/acpi-2.6.0-test5_all
>
> This patch completely re-works the partly broken ACPI cpufreq support
> [among other things].
> Also, these so-called "Performance States" are a late addition to ACPI and
> were only introduced in version 2.0. In some BIOSes you can select whether
> to enable ACPI 2.0.
> In addition, several BIOSes are broken with regard to ACPI "Performance
> States". So, if your notebook chipset is from Intel, you might want to try
> the "speedstep-ich" cpufreq module.
>
> 	Dominik

With test5-bk2 and the acpi patch the error message is gone. The ac adapter 
still fails, but that is probably a faulty dsdt.

Cheers
alex
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