Breezy Dell I8500 cpufreq problem ?

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:30 -0400, John Affleck wrote:
> I updated my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop to Breezy recently and now I'm
> seeing the occasional 'pause' where the entire system locks up for a
> second or so.  These pauses seem to correspond to the following in the
> message log:
> 
> cpufreq: change failed with new_state 1 and result 0
> 
> Is there any way of getting further information short of recompiling
> the kernel with cpufreq debugging enabled ? Is anyone else seeing
> this ?

I'm not sure about the pauses, but I am definitely seeing the above
message on my Dell C.400 laptop. The system does appear sluggish at
times.

Regards.
Tony.
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