speedstep trouble

Bruno Ducrot ducrot at poupinou.org
Sat Jan 21 18:37:31 PST 2006


On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:02:02AM -0500, Natham <Diego Arias> wrote:
> hi:
> 
> i have installed freebsd 6 on my laptop. but my  speedstep dont works.
> I were looking for help in the irc channel and nobodie can help me.
> Now im updating to stable brach. I try everything but in dmesg i got
> this:
> 
> 
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: Please update driver or contact the maintainer.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6120d2906000d29, bus_clk, 64
> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: Please update driver or contact the maintainer.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6120d2906000d29, bus_clk, 64
> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
> p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: Please update driver or contact the maintainer.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6120d2906000d29, bus_clk, 64
> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: Please update driver or contact the maintainer.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6120d2906000d29, bus_clk, 64
> device_attach: est0 attach returned
> 
> i have a dell 630m laptop, with an intel pentium m 740.
> 
> what can i do?  (the speedstep works on linux -ubuntu-live- and windows).
> 

It should work.  Are you sure you put that line onto /boot/loader.conf:

cpufreq_load="YES"
and it's not build into the kernel?

Note that it won't work if you load it after the OS booted.

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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