AMD Athlon64 qool'n quiet - how?

[Zoltan Kota]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:04:50 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:

> From the error message it seems the powernow driver tried to throttle
> down the core voltage from value 0x4 to 0x3 and failed. So we can guess
> that you edited /etc/cpuspeed.conf to set the powernow-k8 driver active?
> The module is loaded (lsmod)?. Anything you can change in the BIOS?

from dmesg:

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0xc, vid 0x4
powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid 0x3, curr 0x4
powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
ACPI wakeup devices:
...

restarting cpuspeed:

Mar 19 19:44:52 localhost kernel: powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid
0x3, curr 0x4
Mar 19 19:44:52 localhost kernel: powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
...

/etc/cpuspeed.conf:
VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
OPTS="-i 2"
#DRIVER="powernow-k8"
#OPTS="-a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state -t
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"

lsmod dosn't show powernow-k8 running.