On Wednesday 06 December 2006 14:56, Remy Blank wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On boot, I get an error when loading speedstep-centrino that a > > device or resource is busy. But I can then log in, rmmod all these > > modules and manually modprobe them in the above order, and it works > > fine. > > I had the same effect when trying to update from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17. Do > you have acpi compiled in (instead of as a module) or do you load the > acpi module before speedstep_centrino? It seems that acpi tries to > load acpi_cpufreq, which used to work here but since 2.6.17 doesn't > anymore and leaves the frequency scaling in a busy state. It should > be fixed in 2.6.19, although I haven't tried. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6848 > > If the above seems to correspond to your problem, try compiling all > of acpi as modules and to load speedstep_centrino first. > > Anyway, quite a long shot in the dark.
Not really :-) For whatever reason, loading speedstep-centrino first makes it all work. Now that I have some direction, I can tinker away by myself and figure out all the other aspects to this. Thanks for the tip alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
