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From: Benjamin Scherrer <realhangman@web.de>
To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI K9A2 Platinum Rev.1 bios update from 1.1 to 1.5 breaks ACPI _PSS objects
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:13:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D8A51E.8040409@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1006443634@web.de>

Hi,

wow, MSI replied very fast  - they sent me an e-mail with a link to the
new 1.6.5 bios (dated early this month, it's not officially out yet).
Cpufreq is working again.

Thank you for the good powernow-k8 output; it got me to the solution in
less than a day!

Benjamin


Benjamin Scherrer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just updated my bios on the MSI K9A2 Platinum mainboard from version 1.1 to 1.5. Unfortunately, cpufreq is not working any more, and "modprobe powernow-k8" gives me:
>
> "powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor processors (4 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
> powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain to your BIOS vendor."
>
> I complaint to MSI, and am kindly asking you for advice what to do now, since I don't want to run all my cpus on 100% all the time. Will the cpufreq_ondemand governer also work without the PSS objects?
>
> greetings,
> Benjamin
>
> p.s. I mailed MSI that they should contact you at http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/ (just as info for you, they most probably won't do anything I guess)
>   


      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-22 17:32 MSI K9A2 Platinum Rev.1 bios update from 1.1 to 1.5 breaks ACPI _PSS objects Benjamin Scherrer
2008-09-23  8:13 ` Benjamin Scherrer [this message]

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