Comment 11 for bug 16961

I still have this problem (hard freezing) with Dapper with a Intel Centrino 1800.
While powernowd is installed it always freezes after some minutes.
I have following versions:
powernowd 0.97-1ubuntu1
linux-image-2.6.15-23-686 (2.6.15-23-39)

I have also tested an earlyer version 0.96 for the developers homepage... same problem... also tested with other Modes e.g. AGGRESSIVE... same...

I first thought that it was something with the ati drivers... but it freezed with fglrx, ati, vesa and the official fglrx...

Then I have increased the verbosity of powernowd and got following output in the syslog:
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: Using PASSIVE mode.
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.97, (c) 2003-2006 John Clemens
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: Settings:
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: verbosity: 6
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: mode: 2 (PASSIVE)
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step: 100 MHz (100000 kHz)
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: lowwater: 20 %
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: highwater: 80 %
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: poll interval: 1000 ms
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: Found 1 scalable unit: -- 1 'CPU' per scalable unit
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: cpu0: 600Mhz - 1800Mhz (7 steps)
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step1 : 1800Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step2 : 1600Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step3 : 1400Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step4 : 1200Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step5 : 1000Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step6 : 800Mhz
May 28 17:57:27 localhost powernowd: step7 : 600Mhz
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: i = 0, cpubase = 0,
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: PCT = 0.019608
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: got here LOWER
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: change = 0, change2 = 0
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: Setting speed to 600000
May 28 17:57:28 localhost powernowd: mode=0, str=600000
May 28 17:57:29 localhost powernowd: i = 0, cpubase = 0,
...
many more of those...
...
May 28 18:02:26 localhost powernowd: change = 0, change2 = 1
May 28 18:02:27 localhost powernowd: i = 0, cpubase = 0,
May 28 18:02:27 localhost powernowd: PCT = 0.010000
May 28 18:02:27 localhost powernowd: change = 0, change2 = 1
May 28 18:02:28 localhost powernowd: i = 0, cpubase = 0,
May 28 18:02:28 localhost powernowd: PCT = 0.000000
May 28 18:02:28 localhost powernowd: change = 0, change2 = 1
May 28 20:03:47 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.

About my Processor:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1792.961
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips : 3587.46