Nick Rout wrote:
> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>
>> I have recompiled my kernel as per the Powernow HOWTO at
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PowerNow! but cannot seem to get any Powernow
>> or frequency
>> scaling support.
>> A dmesg | grep powernow returns nothing , it is enabled in the BIOS of the
>> machine and works under Windows but does not even appear as an option under
>> Gentoo running kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.
>> I am running an Athlon 64 3200+ but running the x86 version of Gentoo
>> so that I can run the software I require that is not well supported under
>> amd64.
>>
>> Any ideas apprecaited.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>>
>>
> Are you sure that you correctly installed the new kernel. I suggest
> zgrepping /proc/config.gz for the appropriate options.
>
>
It turns out I hadn't loaded the module, a simple modprobe powernow_k8
and everything is now working (that command is missing from the howto)
