Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030213AbWIMAQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:16:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030420AbWIMAQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:16:29 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:18577 "EHLO pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030213AbWIMAQ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:16:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:16:23 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: speedstep-centrino broke In-reply-to: To: Ben B Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@codemonkey.org.uk Message-id: <45074DD7.3000204@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1503 Lines: 30 Ben B wrote: > Hi, > > My HP notebook decided that its BIOS upgrade would break > speedstep-centrino, and trying to load the module gives me a "no such > device" error. This is with various combinations of kernel config > relating to cpufreq. Also tried acpi-cpufreq with the same error. > > I suspect that the new bios is broken, but perhaps it's correct and the > linux driver is missing something? Did this part below show up with the previous BIOS? > [17179571.248000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 > [17179571.248000] ACPI Error (evgpeblk-0284): Unknown GPE method type: C341 (name not of form _Lxx or _Exx) [20060127] > [17179571.248000] ACPI Error (evgpeblk-0284): Unknown GPE method type: C23A (name not of form _Lxx or _Exx) [20060127] > [17179571.248000] ACPI Error (evgpeblk-0284): Unknown GPE method type: C342 (name not of form _Lxx or _Exx) [20060127] > [17179571.248000] ACPI Error (evgpeblk-0284): Unknown GPE method type: C343 (name not of form _Lxx or _Exx) [20060127] > [17179571.248000] ACPI Error (evgpeblk-0284): Unknown GPE method type: C26F (name not of form _Lxx or _Exx) [20060127] -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/