Intel Atom Speedstep/cpufreq

Hi!
Can anyone tell me if Speedstepping should work with Arch and Intel Atom? I've got an Intel Atom based system but I've had no luck with cpufreq.
Modprobing the modules give me errors like this
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device
I've been trying to follow how to's like this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufreq
Thanks in advance!

p4-clockmod doesn't actually do freq scaling, it does what the module says - modulation. Which is a whole different thing that doesn't actually bring any benefits. I've had a nice link where all this was explained, but I can't seem to find it now...
Edit: Found it - http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/18 … 4clockmod/
Last edited by Gusar (2010-04-22 20:41:17)

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