CPU wrongly recognized - regular 1s freezes - Dell C600
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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powernowd (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
Install upgraded from 6.06 (which was a fresh install) to Edgy with the update-manager (Oct. 13). The packages are up to date as of Oct. 17 13:30 GMT with a dist-upgrade. The bug was there since the upgrade to Edgy.
As much as it pains me to tell you, Edgy still has this bug on my Dell C600 P3 Coppermine notebook.
The CPU is wrongly recognized and powernowd tries to adjust the CPU frequency regurlarly. Its failure to do so creates 1s freezes of the whole system (interrupts and all) at regular intervals.
This is linked to the following old bugs:
43797
https:/
10813
https:/
I first witnessed this bug in Hoary, talk about legacy! I have now manually done an update-rc.d to remove powernowd from the startup sequence.
For a while the specific Dell machine was placed in a blacklist, and things were fine, could it be so again?
Thanks,
Nico
Changed in powernowd: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
hmm...
I'm probably going to sound a tad passive- aggressive. ..
But wasn't Edgy just released?
This bug is still there, for how many releases now?
Nico
a bit sad, and asks for excuses for the tone