On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote: > > I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only > > mobile processors are supported. You could try: > > > > modprobe processor > > modprobe powernowd-k8 > > > > > > http://technowizah.com/2007/01/debian-how-to-cpu-frequency-management.html > > > > Thanks, but ... > > The how-to is just the sort of thing I was asking for. What to > modprobe, etc. The discussion there agrees with you that only the > mobile processors are supported. But the fan on my mo-bo would start > fast and slow down during boot up. It did this for several years --- > until about 150 hours ago. Now it keeps going fast. Something > changed. Was there a 'bug' in the software that allowed it to control > the fan even though the manufacturer specified that it wouldn't? And > that 'bug' has been 'fixed'? A mighty strange bug. > > Even now there is a slight hesitation in the fan speed at the moment > during boot-up when it used to slow. But then it regains speed. > > When I try to install the modules using modprobe, there is an error > message that asserts that they are not found. But the .ko files are > there on disk and are listed by modprobe -l. So I would count the > detailed wording of the error message as a bug. It is seriously > misleading to claim a reason for failure to load that is easily found > to be false. 'incompatible with CPU hardware' might be better words, > if in fact there really is an incompatiblity.
I have the same issue and a post here has gone un-answered. cat /etc/debian_version squeeze/sid cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ sudo modprobe powernow_k8 WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 2: ignoring bad line starting with 'test' FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device > > I hope there is a recovery fix for my computer, but I think I'll > have to learn to live with the noise. > > Thanks, > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net > > -- Damon da...@damtek.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1285468621.3699.2.ca...@dam-main
