Gerben, as per http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX/#support_Download_8 an update is available for your BIOS (1604). If you update to this, does it change anything?
If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command: sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date Thank you for your understanding. ** Tags added: bios-outdated-1604 needs-upstream-testing regression- potential ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071011 Title: specific device not available in client (passthrough) with high cpu load on host, none in client Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I've got a specific device which is not always handed down to the kvm client showing a high cpu load on the kvm host. No cpu load shown in the client (win7). A few (two) times I saw this device working properly with no high cpu usage on the kvm host, but this was broken after a reboot of the KVM host in at least one time. Reboots of the client showed the device continue to work correctly multiple times before I rebooted the host. 06:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series] [1002:aa68] If the device works correctly, a device is shown by the device manager within windows 7. If not no device is shown, while the host KVM process consumes all cpu cycles assigned to it (2 cpu's in this case) and the client shows not cpu power used. My guess this is specific to this device (a sound device on the graphics card, HD5440). The graphics device and an USB device in passthough both work without problems. When removing the sound device no high cpu usage is shown on the host. Adding the sound device again, high cpu usage is shown on the host. The host is a Quantal server installation. # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 # apt-cache policy qemu-kvm qemu-kvm: Installed: 1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: qemu-kvm 1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 24 21:59:10 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.2) MachineType: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M. ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=58e57f77-7117-4eff-8162-47b465a72050 ro SourcePackage: qemu-kvm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/12/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1102 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: SABERTOOTH 990FX dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1102:bd03/12/2012:svnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnSABERTOOTH990FX:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1071011/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp