Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (136 mails)

[Andre Truter <andre.truter@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had the CPU frequency scaling working fine on my AMD Turion-based
laptop running SuSE 9.3 and then suddenly it started to freeze every
now and again.

I noticed that the number of processes just increased a lot and then
would suddenly fall back just to increase again.

That is when I saw these messages in my log file:

--<snip>--
 24 20:16:29 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing targ, change
pending bit set
Sep 24 20:16:32 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing targ,
change pending bit set
Sep 24 20:16:32 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing targ,
change pending bit set
Sep 24 20:17:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: detected change
pending stuck
Sep 24 20:17:19 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing targ,
change pending bit set
Sep 24 20:17:19 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing targ,
change pending bit set
Sep 24 20:17:47 fullyautomatix kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
Sep 24 20:17:47 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: detected change
pending stuck
Sep 24 20:18:25 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: detected change
pending stuck
--<snip>--

Lots of them.

So I restarted powesaved and the machine settled down, but the cpu was
stuck at max frequency.

So I tried to reboot and now powersave still does not work.
These are the starup messages after reboot:
--<snip>--
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon
64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e)
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xa
(1800 MHz), vid 0x4 (1450 mV)
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8
(1600 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x0
(800 MHz), vid 0x16 (1000 mV)
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix kernel: powernow-k8: failing init,
change pending bit set
Sep 24 20:23:07 fullyautomatix [powersave][6915]: WARNING in Function
getSupportedSleepStates; line 21: Could not open /proc/acpi/sleep file
to evaluate supported sleeping states
--<snip>--

Any idea what could cause this?
Thanks
--
Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282
ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org

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