Bug#637395: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: EEE-PC 1000H: cpufreq cannot be set to ondemand

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Renard wrote:

> EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM (done as root): 
> 1. echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> 2. cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
>
> EXPECTED OUTCOME: 
> ondemand
>
> ACTUAL OUTCOME: 
> performance

What is your detected list of available governors?

 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
 powersave userspace conservative ondemand performance 

[...]
> cpufreq-applet shows the frequencies: 
> 1.6GHz, 1.4GHz, 1.2GHz, 999MHz, 799MHz, 599MHz, 399MHz, 199MHz
> but 1.6GHz, 1.33GHz and 799MHz are expected only (like in <= 2.39.x)
>
> I tried the same with a Lenovo t420i with linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 and it
> works as expected (so cpufreq works). On the EEE-PC it worked fine with
> 2.6.39-2-i686-pae.

Hmm, weird.  Maybe it's using a different cpufreq driver than before.
Please attach dmesg output from booting the good and bad kernels,
without the speakup and virtualbox drivers if possible.