What I find on googling is way over my head, alas!
I installed fedora 4 on three machines on my desk, way back when 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 canned settings, 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 instance that 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 then the one that had been usable ceased to be.
On the current problem machine, I get the error below when I reboot. 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.
I've never done a blessed thing with kernels, beyond telling yum to update them; too fierce to contemplate, for such a duffer as me -- I could louse things up even worse than I often do as it is, right? I don't want to now, if I can help it. But last time I even tried to remove a kernel, I wrecked a machine to the point of having to re-install Fedora.
So can someone tell me how to delete the problem one, or what to do instead?
PS : I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf one more time, making it match that on a machine where the display works; logged out and in; looked at the GUI display fixer; found no change; told it Cancel; looked at /etc/X11/xorg.conf with pico -w one more time, and found the changes had taken. I hit Ctrl-X to close pico with no changes, then rebooted.
This time I chose the next to most recent kernel. The fatal error message did not appear -- but all else was as before.
Again I rebooted, and chose one kernel earlier still, the next to next to most recent. All results the same : error message gone, display not changed (still failing to reflect the numbers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf), /etc/X11/xorg.conf not changed.
I shut it down. Maybe I should go set it on a stump and minister unto it with a sledgehammer.
Beartooth SenectoFlatuloid wrote:
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.
That's not a problem, your CPU doesn't support frequency control so it will run at its usual 233 Mhz or whatever.
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:50:21 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
Beartooth SenectoFlatuloid wrote:
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.
That's not a problem, your CPU doesn't support frequency control so it will run at its usual 233 Mhz or whatever.
OK, many thanks! I'll just ignore it, then.
But it still leaves me with the display problem. If I simply scp my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from one of the machines that work into the problem machine, it doesn't work; I log out and back in, and it still doesn't; I reboot, and the it has to repair my whole X11 -- leaving it still not right.
If I ssh into the problem machine from one of the ones that work, become root, and do pico -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf (pico is the only editor I know), changing the section "Screen" to match what works on one of the others, it doesn't take, after logout and back in, nor on reboot. (But at least, that way, it doesn't have to repair X11.)
That is, the entries in the file are changed, but the display isn't right, and the GUI for setting the display (Main Menu > Desktop > System Settings
Display) fails to reflect them. It seems addicted to 800x600 a/o 640x480
and 256 colors. But the ViewSonic VG910b is 1280x1024 with millions of colors.
(It's actually a rich man's monitor, out of my class: a 19" flat panel; but it was the only one the store had that was listed under the hardware tab in the GUI for the display. So I choked hard and went back for it.)
If I ssh into the problem machine from one of the ones that work, become root, do pico -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and change not only the section "Screen" but also the section "Monitor" to match what works on one of the others, the result is the same.
Btw, I have one of the ones that work set to the VG910b, 1280x1024, and millions of colors; it's fine. The other one, an old P2 like the problem machine, is set to generic LCD 1280x1024 ; it isn't right -- among other things, the display GUI seems unaware that there is such a setting as 1280x1024 -- but it's usable. There was a time when all these same things were true, but the present problem P2 was usable, and the one now usable was the problem. Both were new in 1998, and have had all possible memory added.
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
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