POWERNOW-K8; MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS Stuctures ??

[William Case]

Thanks Mikkel

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 10:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > What is this warning I get at boot just before Red Hat nash starting:
> > "POWERNOW-K8; MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS Stuctures" ??
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have just installed a new ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with an AMD Athlon
> > 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to turn off either the warning or acpi in Fedora
> > 7?  I am supposing it has some use in my WindowsXP.
> > 
> I would not turn off ACPI, except as a last resort. It is for a lot
> more then for laptop "sleeping". You may want to read up on what
> ACPI does. It is definitly useful on a desktop. From trivial things
> like handling what the system does when you push the power switch,
> (sleep, hibernate, do a safe shutdown, etc...) to showing cpu temps,
> to managing the cpu temps, to setting up interrupts for system hardware.
> 
Fair enough.  But it leaves the question, "what does the warning want me
to do and how do I do it?"
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Regards Bill