Re: powernow-k8: Power state transitions not supported

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:59:16AM +0000, Micha? Pytasz wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 of March 2005 08:43, Michael Pophal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried the last 3 days to convince cpufreq to work with my new Semperon
> > 2600+ (Socket 754).
> > I also bought a new mainboard 'MSI K8T Neo-V'. It is a desktop (not
> > mobile) processor!
> > I compiled the kernel with the recommended settings. The result during
> > startup:
> > powernow-k8: Power state transitions not supported
> Do You have cpuid in Your kernel?

That check from cpuid wont work.

The message above (Power state transitions not supported) indicate that cpuid,
function 0x80000007 return a value so that the processor do not support
frequency and voltage scaling.

> > It seems to me, that this processor is not supported by cpufreq, isn't
> > it?
> 
> I guess it is, however I might be wrong ;)

You are wrong, I'm afraid.

> 
> > I want to have a cheap processor, which is able to save power, because
> > it is running the whole day. Do you have any recommendation which
> > processor I should use. I'm going to change the Semperon 2600+ to try
> > another combination (cpu + mainboard). Any hint is hightly apprecitated!
> >
> > Do you have a Semperon xx00+ (Socket 754) running on this 'Cool'n Quiet'
> > mode? Which one works?

AFAIK, the only choice is amd64.  Maybe ebay would be your friend, who
knows?

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