Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (491 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Moritz Kürten wrote:

> > > > Newcastle powernow should work with the latest 2.6.5 kernel from
> > > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/kernel-of-the-day/
> > > >        
>
> I installed the new kernel successfully, but C'n'Q doesn't work.
>
> When I make
>
> modprobe powernow_k8 
> dmesg | grep powernow
>
> I get 
> Powernow_k8: unsupported module, tainting kernel
> Powernow_k8: found 1 AMD Athlon 64 Processor (Version 1.00.09d)
> Powernow_k8: BIOS error: NUMPST must be 1
>
> And when I say
> Cpufreqd
> I get
> Can't open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_gouvernor
> File not found
>
> And 
> cat throttling
> Reports
> Not supported
>
> What can I try now?
>
> Thanks for help,
> Moritz
>
>
>  
I am not using the Mantel kernel, I'm using kernel.org  2.6.7-rc3-mm1, 
Acer Aspire 1501LCe laptop with Mobile AMD64 XP3000+, SuSE 9.1 x86_64.
# lsmod|grep powernow
powernow_k8               10504  0
freq_table                        5064  1 powernow_k8

from dmesg
==========
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0xa, vid 0x0
powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0xa

Regards
Sid.

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