cpufreq module on x86_64

Brian Maly bmaly at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 22:15:40 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> I noticed that at some point my Athlon 64 3000+ (2ghz) desktop system
> lost its ability to change frequency. I think it happened in a F9
> update, but its definately gone in F10. It was capable of switching
> between 2ghz and 1ghz. Is mine one of the old Athlon 64's that take too
> much time to switch or something? I never had too much problem, if I was
> doing something really demanding I'd just manually lock it at 2ghz...
>   

Did your powernow-k8 driver load properly? Does 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver exist?  What are the 
contents of this file?


Brian




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