Anything here I should worry about?

Sean Bruno sean_bruno at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 7 16:28:09 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 21:56 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > ----
> >> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> >> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> >> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 4718471806004718
> >> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
> > ----
> > This usually means you don't have the BIOS power managment features
> set
> > to "O/S Control" or whatever.  So the kernel cannot do est(4)
> things.
> > There's a bit of this kind of information in the est(4) man page.
> Even if I set O/S control, I still get this message.  the manpage
> has a different MSR value :( 

Hrm, we have plenty of this generation at the office.  There must be
some power management setting disabled or something in your BIOS that is
disabling this.

sean



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