I'm trying to get a cpufreq driver loaded for a Sempron 3000+ in an MSI K9VGM-V barebones to reduce power consumption. Doesn't look good, but I'm installing a new kernel from debian now. I keep getting the following errors:
powernow-k8: Power state transitions not supported
Darn, I'm convinced that this won't be working out as I planned, but still the machine is really nice. One thing I don't really like about the machine is the power supply. Luckily I had a SeaSonic lying around I'm using instead.
lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller 00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c) 00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge 00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3230 (rev 11) 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) 04:04.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02) 04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
dmesg output:
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/md2 ro ) Linux version 2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu May 10 01:01:58 UTC 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009a000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009a000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007bef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000007bef0000 - 000000007bef3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000007bef3000 - 000000007bf00000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI 2.4 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 K8M890 ) @ 0x00000000000f7ce0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 K8M890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x000000007bef3040 ACPI: FADT (v001 K8M890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x000000007bef30c0 ... hda: CHECK for good STATUS eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1 eth1: no IPv6 routers present eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1 eth1: no IPv6 routers present r8169: eth0: link up eth0: no IPv6 routers present
I'm using RAID over a few different controllers, plus LVM on top of that for maximum performance plus flexibility.
Oh and by the way, when I was working on this, I noticed a big difference between ubuntu and debian: ubuntu has the "custom dsdt" kernel patch built in, whereas debian does not.
I even updated the BIOS!