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 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. 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
