Breezy Dell I8500 cpufreq problem ?

[Jim Richardson]

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 ?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	John A.
> 
> PS - cpuinfo reports: "Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz",
>      stepping 7. The BIOS version is apparently A01. I guess I should
> 	 check for BIOS updates..
> 


I had this problem, or at least, one very like it. It was caused by
powernowd, I shut that down, and turned it off in the rc scripts, and
the problem went away. You might want to turn it on when you're on
batteries, to save power, but I am usually hooked up to AC and it was
frequing annoying. 


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's
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