On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:41:30AM -0500, Beartooth SenectoFlatuloid wrote:
What I find on googling is way over my head, alas! I installed fedora 4 on three machines on my desk, way backwhen it was new. Everything worked fine. Ran nightly yum updates ever since. I now have well over a dozen kernels.
Then I had to replace my flat panel monitor (a BenQ FP767,which died; the shop couldn't fix it) with another (a ViewSonic VG910b -- the only one, of several the shop had, which was listed under Main Menu > Desktop > System Settings > Display > Hardware > Configure).
At first, my main machine and one old one took the cannedsettings, the main machine fine, the old one (a P2) usably; but the other old P2 was unusable.
I fussed and fiddled, figuring out eventually for instancethat any changes had to be made completely without the KVM switch : not only monitor but also keyboard and mouse plugged directly to the machine being changed.
Finally I got the *other* old P2 to display usably -- and thenthe one that had been usable ceased to be.
On the current problem machine, I get the error below when Ireboot. It follows below "Checking for new hardware" (which gets marked OK)
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):No such device.
There's an update to 'cpuspeed' in updates-testing that should make this go away. It's an overly verbose harmless warning that your system doesn't support dynamically changing its CPU speed.
Dave