Comment 228 for bug 22336

Happy holidays to everyone.

I also am experiencing this problem on my brand new Athlon 64 X2 with Biostar motherboard Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 2.6.15-29-amd64-server. It is unusable at this point.

I may have found the source of this problem: when the powernow-k8 module loads the following message appears in the messages log:

"Dec 23 22:21:35 flamingo kernel: [10705.713846] powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 60fb1 not supported."

A search for "cpuid 60fb1" at AMD's website led me to this page:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1202%5E1073%5E871%5E13118,00.html

which has a downloadable driver for kernels between 2.6.10 and 2.6.18.

Since the kernel in this version is 2.6.15, it does not include the driver for the Athlon 64 chips, and requires this download. However, the instructions from AMD say to compile the kernel. I'm not prepared to do that, I only want to compile the module. I have the kernel headers because VMWare needed them to compile its module, and I wold like to compile only the powernow-k8 module. Can someone provide the necessary steps?

Thanks!