Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: cpu frequncy scaling module fail to load
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:03:43
Message-Id: hgbmal$g7i$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] cpu frequncy scaling module fail to load by Nadav Horesh
1 On 12/16/2009 08:34 PM, Nadav Horesh wrote:
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3 > System: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
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6 > I recently upgraded from 2.6.23 to 2.6.31-r6 following the udev upgrade (the latest version - 146-r1 needs kernel version>= 2.6.25). Since the upgrade the frequency scaling modules fails to load at startup, but I can load it manually later by:
7 >
8 > modprobe powernow-k8
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10 > More information:
11 >
12 > $ rc-update -s
13 > .
14 > .
15 > .
16 > powernowd | default
17 >
18 > $ grep -i powernow /var/log/messages
19 >
20 > Dec 14 08:31:24 nadav_home kernel: ACPI: SSDT 00000000dfff75c0 002CC (v01 PTLTD POWERNOW 00000001 LTP 00000001)
21 > Dec 14 08:31:24 nadav_home rc-scripts: ERROR: powernowd failed to start
22
23 Install and set up sys-power/powernowd.