Description of problem: BIOS post problem on boot. How reproducible: Poweroff while "ondemand" active. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install cpupower 2.Do not edit sysconfig files 3. Poweroff with "ondemand" active. 4. Boot 5.Post problem on this hardware 6. edit sysconfig to poweroff pc with "performance" active. 7. problem solved 8. ¿? Actual results: Bad BIOS post Expected results: Good BIOS post Additional info: Strange bug in this hardware: BIOS Information Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. Version: F12 Release Date: 03/07/2008 Address: 0xE0000 Runtime Size: 128 kB ROM Size: 512 kB Characteristics: PCI is supported PNP is supported APM is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported BIOS ROM is socketed EDD is supported 5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported LS-120 boot is supported ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Product Name: Version: Serial Number: UUID: Not Present Wake-up Type: Power Switch Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: M55S-S3 Version: Serial Number:
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: Socket M2 Type: Central Processor Family: Athlon Manufacturer: AMD ID: B2 0F 04 00 FF FB 8B 17 Signature: Family 15, Model 75, Stepping 2 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) HTT (Multi-threading) Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Voltage: 1.4 V External Clock: 200 MHz Max Speed: 3200 MHz Current Speed: 2200 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: ZIF Socket L1 Cache Handle: 0x000B L2 Cache Handle: 0x000D L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided Serial Number: Asset Tag: Part Number:
I doubt this has anything to do with the cpupower tool. Anyhow, it's a part of kernel-tools now (f16+), re-assigning.