On Saturday 19 March 2005 08:04, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 19.03.2005 schrieb Zoltan Kota um 12:33: > > I have an AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine with Fedora Core 3 (x86_64). How > > can I exploit the qool'n quiet feature of the processor? It doesn't > > seem to decrease the speed. cpuspeed runs and the processor is > > recognized as I see in /var/log/messages. (Although there are some > > warning messages as well: "powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid 0x3, > > curr 0x4"). > > Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum > > > > Zoltan > > From the error message it seems the powernow driver tried to throttle > down the core voltage from value 0x4 to 0x3 and failed. So we can guess > that you edited /etc/cpuspeed.conf to set the powernow-k8 driver active? > The module is loaded (lsmod)?. Anything you can change in the BIOS? I have read somewhere else that this kind of error is normal... It's because there is no good way to determine which modes your mainboard/cpu combo support - so the driver just tries them all, and sees which ones succeed and which ones fail. What bios version are you running? I have a via based MSI board that needed a bios update to work properly... Also, this link might help: its about FC2, but... http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-21137.html Peter.
