Bug#489058: 2.6.25-2-amd64: acpi_cpufreq won't load on Xeon E5420

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:03:55PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Kevin Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64
> > Version: 2.6.25-5
> > Severity: normal
> > File: 2.6.25-2-amd64
> > 
> > 
> > I am unable to load the acpi-cpufreq module on my Xeon E5420 which uses the core microarchitecture and 
> > as I understand it should therefore use this module for frequency scaling. 
> > 
> > #modprobe acpi-cpufreq
> > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-amd64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device
> > 
> > I've even got /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq and /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils staring in runlevel 2, but
> > 
> > #cpufreq-info
> > cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
> > Report errors and bugs to linux@brodo.de, please.
> > analyzing CPU 0:
> >   no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
> > analyzing CPU 1:
> >   no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
> > analyzing CPU 2:
> >   no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
> > analyzing CPU 3:
> >   no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
> > 
> > Finally,
> 
> please checkout 2.6.26-rc8 images, see trunk apt lines
> -> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel

Kevin, does the error still occur with the current kernel from Lenny?

Cheers,
        Moritz