Rob Weir wrote: > Sam Halliday said > > 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built > > into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and > > sysfs mounted correctly... the folder > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 > > is completely empty! no sub folders... nothing! > You need a kernel patch to support cpufreq on your machine, you can get > it here: http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200406/msg00024.html. > It's been merged into Linus' BK tree. I use cpufreqd, and I've attached > my config file. It runs at 1GHz when on AC power, half that on battery. cool... its working now. whats the pros/cons of cpufreqd against powernowd? btw... where in /proc can i find the laptop hd/cpu temperature? there is no entry in /proc/cpuinfo and i set CONFIG_TAU=y (no AVERGE though) in the kernel build. > > 2 - pbbuttonsd fails with the following: this works when i compile my own kernel. i don't know why it didn't work with the debian kernel. odd. > > 4 - i still can't get X started! and worse yet, it takes my system > > with it when it fails, so i have to force a reset. > > You need to have at least 2.6.7-rc2, or the radeon is unusably flickery. > I've attached my XF86Config-4. Note that I have DRI disabled, since it > (iirc) makes pmdisk fail to resume. unfortunately this has brought me no closer to having X on my system. what framebuffer do you use? i have deselected all but the ofvideo driver. are you maybe using the radeon one? are you using any non-standard kernel options? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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