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CPU frequency scaling will not load at boot

Hello, i'm curious as to why some things are not happening at boot time (i end up having to manually load them).

In /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (near the bottom) i have set "CPUFREQ=on"
and commented out any modules not specific to my hardware.

I have left this one uncommented:

Code:

# AMD Cool&Quiet PowerNow!:

  /sbin/modprobe powernow-k8 2>/dev/null

and below the "### CPU frequency scaling policies:" i have;

Code:

/sbin/modprobe cpufreq_ondemand 2>/dev/null

uncommented. My scaling governor is set to:

Code:

SCALING_GOVERNOR=ondemand

Now whenever i reboot my machine `lsmod` is not showing any of either powernow-k8 or cpufreq* related modules.

I know i could use /etc/rc.d/rc.local with these:

Code:

/sbin/modprobe powernow-k8

/sbin/modprobe cpufreq_ondemand

/usr/bin/cpufreq-set -g ondemand

But seems to defeat the purpose of rc.modules, any idea why they are not being loaded at boot... ?

Code:

$ uname -a

Linux slackware 2.6.35.7 #3 SMP Mon Oct 11 01:34:00 CDT 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

with slackware64-current

Cheers.

Well i just noticed this:

Code:

$ ls -la rc.modules*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Nov  9 22:18 rc.modules -> rc.modules-2.6.33.4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35412 Nov 16 23:08 rc.modules-2.6.33.4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35406 Oct 11 07:25 rc.modules-2.6.35.7

I'm pretty sure this might be why, is it safe to simply link rc.modules to the newer rc.modules-2.6.35.7 seeing as i won't be using the older kernel??

EDIT:
Well, either way it worked on boot this time after relinking:

Code:

# unlink /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

# ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc.modules-2.6.35.7 /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

From /etc/rc.d/rc.S:

Code:

# Priority is given first to a script named "rc.modules.local", then

# to "rc.modules-$FULL_KERNEL_VERSION", and finally to the plain "rc.modules".

# Note that if /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local is found, then that will be the ONLY

# rc.modules script the machine will run, so make sure it has everything in

# it that you need.

You could have edited rc.modules-2.6.35.7 or relinked as you have done (or created rc.modules.local).