Am Montag, 25. April 2005 13:58 schrieb Tom Martin: > Marc, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:51:37PM +0200, Marc Schlienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got a notebook with Intel Pentium M processor (Dell Latitude D800) > > and experienced the following problem: There is a strange sound > > (beep-beep-beep ...) which seems to come from the processor. Currently > > I'm using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 but this sound is also there with every > > other kernel I tried. And I tried many kernels. I then realized after > > playing arround with the kernel config that the kernel module "processor" > > is the source of the problem. As I need this module to be able to change > > the processor speed it is no solution not to compile this module into the > > kernel or not to use it as module. I heard of a "processor" module from > > Intel but couldn't find it yet for 2.6.x kernels. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Well, you should be safe to change it to another setting that doesn't > cause the problem. Intel SpeedStep, A.K.A Frequency Scaling should work > regardless -- presuming you have that driver (it's under Power > Management -> CPU Frequency Scaling IIRC). Apart from that I can't > really suggest much. > > Tom
I've chosen this driver right now but without the "processor" module frequency scaling won't work! Regards Marc -- [email protected] mailing list
