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powernowd package

powernow-k8: ignoring illegal change with cpufreq-selector

Bug #163600 reported by José Oviedo
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powernowd (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have change frecuency for my CPU with: sudo cpufreq-selector -f 2000000 in mode battery and i have see the next error with dmesg:

[ 455.198914] powernow-k8: ignoring illegal change in lo freq table-2 to 0x2
[ 455.198926] powernow-k8: transition frequency failed

And the cpu state not change, this is my info for my cpu

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 15
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow up ts fid vid ttp
bogomips : 3984.34
clflush size : 64

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
powersave userspace ondemand conservative performance

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2000000 1800000 1000000

Becouse if my laptop is connected of normal way without battery the cpufreq if it makes the change to me

Revision history for this message
Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

Changed in powernowd:
status: New → Incomplete
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Ubuntusucks (user60383867) wrote :

Yes this powernow-k8 annoyance hasn't gone away, and it's been left unfixed for so long I don't think you'll ever fix it. In over a month, I've seen fewer than 9 updates in Synaptic. I'm pretty sure by now development has gone downhill. I might go back to windows soon!

I get
 powernow-k8: ignoring illegal change in lo freq table-4 to 0x0
 powernow-k8: transition frequency failed

(repeats endlessly)

ULV 1.2 GHz Turion Dual Core on a raon everun note. By the way I have the working firmware for the wifi on this notebook that you guys failed to include in your distro. It's hard as hell to find, maybe you want it? megamanv@gmail . com

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hi José. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in powernowd (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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