Re: setting powernow-k7 conflicting on laptop.

Dominik Brodowski
2004-03-31T16:59:31Z

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:40:01PM +0200, Geotronix wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I have a Presario 710EA with Debian 2.6.4-k7 kernel image installed.
> With modconf I tried to install the PowerNow-k7 module but I get a
> message that tells me that the device is in use.
> As a matter of fact I have activated and loaded all ACPI modules and
> another module freq_table that is used by ACPI and that modconf dowsn't
> let me unload. I'm not able to understand who is conficting with
> powernow module and why it isn't loading.
>
> WHich are the modules that mustn't be loaded in memory so that I can
> install powernow for my DUron 900 processor?

rmmod acpi

it's the cpufreq-acpi module which doesn't work on most (all?) powernow
systems. Then, powernow-k7 should function properly. A patch which will
fix this behaviour and let you register powernow-k7 independently of whether
the non-working cpufreq-acpi module is loaded is in the queue to Linus
already.

Dominik

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