Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cpufrequtils can't find expected /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:03:40
Message-Id: 5358FD74.2040500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] cpufrequtils can't find expected /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq by Walter Dnes
1 cpufreqd, cpufrequtils are both dead packages for years now, it's
2 propably cpupower you want instead,
3 the only package getting updated for constantly changing paths in /sys
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7 On 24/04/14 09:27, Walter Dnes wrote:
8 > I'm finishing up on installing Gentoo on a laptop. I tried testing
9 > cpufrequtils, and ran into problems...
10 >
11 > [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils start
12 > * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
13 > * Running cpufreq-set --governor conservative -- ...
14 > /usr/libexec/cpufrequtils-change.sh: line 26: cd:
15 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq: No such file or directory [ !! ]
16 > * ERROR: cpufrequtils failed to start
17 >
18 > I found some promising-looking threads on forums.gentoo.org, but the
19 > forum gives...
20 >
21 > phpBB : Critical Error
22 >
23 > Could not connect to the database
24 >
25 > ...so that wasn't any help. Am I missing some kernel setting? Note
26 > that I'me running mdev instead of udev. Could that be the problem?
27 >