Re: AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote:
> > I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only
> > mobile processors are supported. You could try:
> >
> > modprobe processor
> > modprobe powernowd-k8
> >
> >
> > http://technowizah.com/2007/01/debian-how-to-cpu-frequency-management.html
> >
>
> Thanks, but ...
>
> The how-to is just the sort of thing I was asking for. What to
> modprobe, etc. The discussion there agrees with you that only the
> mobile processors are supported. But the fan on my mo-bo would start
> fast and slow down during boot up. It did this for several years ---
> until about 150 hours ago. Now it keeps going fast. Something
> changed. Was there a 'bug' in the software that allowed it to control
> the fan even though the manufacturer specified that it wouldn't? And
> that 'bug' has been 'fixed'? A mighty strange bug.
>
> Even now there is a slight hesitation in the fan speed at the moment
> during boot-up when it used to slow. But then it regains speed.
>
> When I try to install the modules using modprobe, there is an error
> message that asserts that they are not found. But the .ko files are
> there on disk and are listed by modprobe -l. So I would count the
> detailed wording of the error message as a bug. It is seriously
> misleading to claim a reason for failure to load that is easily found
> to be false. 'incompatible with CPU hardware' might be better words,
> if in fact there really is an incompatiblity.
I have the same issue and a post here has gone un-answered.
cat /etc/debian_version
squeeze/sid
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
sudo modprobe powernow_k8
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 2: ignoring bad line
starting with 'test'
FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8
(/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device
>
> I hope there is a recovery fix for my computer, but I think I'll
> have to learn to live with the noise.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>
>
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