cpufreq indicator does not work correctly with kernel 3.10.10

[autra]

When booting with the 3.10.10 kernel, cpufreq indicator is broken :
- the indicator does not show animations when cpu load increases
- There are only PowerSave and Performance in the menu. On Demand and conservative disappeared.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: indicator-cpufreq 0.2.2-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 6 11:16:00 2013
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20120703-2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-11 (147 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: indicator-cpufreq
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-07-05 (62 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[asgard2 (kamp000x)]

same problem here, I upgraded from kernel 3.9.9 to 3.10.10

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz

uname -a
3.10.10-031010-generic #201308291422 SMP Thu Aug 29 18:24:39 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Only powersave and performance at the indicator menu.

[asgard2 (kamp000x)]

bug exists since kernel 3.10.10, same Problem with the current kernel 3.11

[asgard2 (kamp000x)]

After upgrade to saucy, this problem seems to be fixed, but not at all my installations, I could not discover why. Same kernel, sources and indicator version. An indicator-cpuf purge and reinstallation could not fix this issue.

[autra (autra)]

I confirm that when upgraded to saucy, the problem disappear.

However, when installing kernel 3.12, I still experience this issue. Linked to ubuntu patch to kernel?

[autra (autra)]

After a bit of digging I found :
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2179879.html
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1188647

So it is because the new intel pstate driver is activated with the new kernel by default. This driver only has performance and powersave settings (which should be enough, and they should be better than the old cpufreq driver).

If you have trouble with this new driver (high cpu consumption, bad performance), you can add intel_pstate=disable to your boot option.

Marking this as invalid I guess.