AMD Athlon64 qool'n quiet - how?

[Jonathan Berry]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:23:54 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Sa, den 19.03.2005 schrieb Jonathan Berry um 20:03:
> > > /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"
> >
> > Why is the DRIVER line commented out?  You might try uncommenting it
> > and seeing what happens.
> 
> Yes, I am asking that too.

Yeah, I think that may be the whole problem.

> > > lsmod dosn't show powernow-k8 running.
> >
> > I think it is built into the FC3 kernel.  lsmod doesn't show it on my
> > system either, but frequency scaling is definitely working.
> 
> $ modinfo powernow-k8
> filename:
> /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko
> author:         Paul Devriendt <paul.devriendt at amd.com>
> description:    AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processor frequency driver.
> license:        GPL
> vermagic:       2.6.10-1.770_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
> depends:
> srcversion:     99B368DB86B77FF3B18C2F7

$ /sbin/modinfo powernow-k8
modinfo: could not find module powernow-k8
$ uname -rpim
2.6.10-1.770_FC3 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
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> > Jonathan
> 
> Alexander

Jonathan