[Grml] powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects

[Jon]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:14:10AM +0000, T o n g wrote:

>  % dmesg | tail -2
>  powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.00.00)
>  powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
> 
> I think my BIOS supports the AMD PowerNow! technology, why I'm still
> getting the above? Is there anything on the software side that I'm missing?

The slower Semprons don't have Cool & Quiet. If it's not a Sempron (cat 
/proc/cpuinfo), then make sure you're running the latest BIOS, and make 
sure Cool & Quiet is enabled in the BIOS.