opteron 175 on kn8 SLI pro and powernow-k8

hello,

On abit k8n SLI pro I'm currently running the 939 Athlon64 4000+. I was
happy to see that scaling is supported in openSuSE x86_64 for my chip.

I also have an opteron 175. This chip won't scale on a gigabyte ga-k8n
uptra, no matter what I try.

I thinking to try it on the abit k8n since there powernow drivers work.

Does anyone have the opteron 175 scaling on abit k8n SLI pro in Linux?
I want the cpu to throttle down on idle via cpufreq modules.

--
Mark

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:24:11 -0700, Mark Pryor wrote:

> hello,
>
> On abit k8n SLI pro I'm currently running the 939 Athlon64 4000+. I was
> happy to see that scaling is supported in openSuSE x86_64 for my chip.
>
> I also have an opteron 175. This chip won't scale on a gigabyte ga-k8n
> uptra, no matter what I try.
>
> I thinking to try it on the abit k8n since there powernow drivers work.
>
> Does anyone have the opteron 175 scaling on abit k8n SLI pro in Linux?
> I want the cpu to throttle down on idle via cpufreq modules.
>

The answer is yes, it works. This board will scale an Opty 175 unlike many
others (mostly gigabyte). It's interesting that this board has a more
recent bios than the others.

powernow-k8: Found 2 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 175 processors (vers ion 2.00.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x8
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xa
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xc
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12

I was careful to load the DVD installer for openSuSE 10.2 and run an
update.

But first, reset the bios.
On first boot, load optimal defaults, set the time. Reboot, then do
"tab", "escape", and boot into my usb flash and test with memtest86.

Abit and Opteron x2 are together the right stuff.

--
Mark