linux-kernel - Re: speedstep-centrino: ENODEV

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Message-ID: <4537D337.3020706@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:34:15 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	Sune Mølgaard <sune@...gaard.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: speedstep-centrino: ENODEV

Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>>> Also, can both of you send the complete acpidump output from 
>> your system. You can find acpidump in latest version of 
>> pmtools package here: 
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/
>>
>> May be obtained over there:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>>> processor, but speedstep-centrino returns ENODEV because of 
>>>>>> lack of _PCT et al 
>>>>>> entries in DSDT (http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/adump). 
>> ----------------------^^^^
>>
> 
> Looking at the acpidump, looks like BIOS doesn't have this feature enabled. Can you also make sure you have latest BIOS for the platform and also, check in BIOS whether there are any options to enable this feature.

Oh my god, I am a chump! Sorry; I had disabled this in BIOS. After enabling it,
acpidump contains _PCT et al and speedstep-centrino works.

thanks,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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