powernow-k8 trouble on FC2T3

[David Wolinski <dwolinski ll mit edu>]

Hello,

	I've got a laptop (Hypersonic model Aviator AX6 with Athlon 64)  
running Fedora Core 2 Test 3 (kernel 2.6.5-1.327) and I was interested in
using CPU frequency scaling since /proc/cpuinfo shows my CPU at its lower
speed.  So I rebuilt a custom kernel with the CPU_FREQ options selected.  
When I boot using the new kernel and then add the powernow-k8 module to
the kernel using

> modprobe powernow-k8

I see in /var/log/messages the lines

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.08b)
powernow-k8: BIOS error: numpst must be 1

and as far as I can tell, nothing else happens.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there a fix for this issue?

Thanks for any help.

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Here are some CPUFREQ-related lines from my custom kernel .config file:

#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y

#
# CPUFreq processor drivers
#
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m
# CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF is not set
# CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6 is not set
# CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7 is not set
CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=m
# CONFIG_X86_GX_SUSPMOD is not set
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_TABLE=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_SMI=m
CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD=m
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB=y
# CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK is not set
CONFIG_X86_LONGRUN=y
CONFIG_X86_LONGHAUL=y