Comment 2 for bug 13470

(In reply to comment #0)
> I have experienced this problem with my Dell Latitude 810 laptop (Pentium M 1.13
> GHz) since Hoary was installed a few weeks ago. The machine pauses for a second
> or two every time the cpu frequency falls to its lower value. This did not occur
> when using Fedora Core 3, which uses cpuspeed. I have tried cpuspeed on Ubuntu
> but I still get the pauses. cpudyn and cpufreqd also exhibit the behaviour. This
> leads me to believe it may not be powernowd but the cpufreq subsystem itself.

This also occurs on an Acer TravelMate C100 that steps between two speeds -
400MHz and 800MHz. It also causes me to lose characters at terminals :| If the
behaviour cannot be substantially improved, I hope powernowd will NOT be enabled
by default on the forthcoming release.