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Smith oo4

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From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 42

Frequency scaling with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor [Solved]

I have installed Arch on an older computer with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor.  I am trying to setup frequency scaling, but I can't get any of the modules listed on the wiki (acpi-cpufreq, p4-clockmod, powernow-k6, powernow-k7, powernow-k8, and speedstep-centrino) to load. 

e.g.

sudo modprobe acpi-cpufreq

FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device

Are there other modules I could try, am I doing something wrong, or does this processor simply not support frequency scaling?

Last edited by Smith oo4 (2008-08-22 20:07:10)

mips1

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Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: Frequency scaling with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor [Solved]

See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=410215

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Re: Frequency scaling with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor [Solved]

Unless this is a mobile CPU frequency scaling won't work. Those CPUs simply don't support it, only the mobile K7 does afaik.

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Smith oo4

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From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 42

Re: Frequency scaling with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor [Solved]

I kind of thought that CPU scaling would not be supported for this processer, but I did not see any harm in asking. 
Thank you for your help.

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Re: Frequency scaling with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor [Solved]

If that was all you needed to know, simply googling it would have answered your question a whole lot quicker...

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