Dax's bug title and first post sounded like my hal-info problem but his
second post sounds like my powernowd problem *if* by "screen still
freezing" he means the text cursor stops flashing in kdm. Dax?

My XP2800+ machine install was from a Jaunty Desktop Alpha 4 ISO. A
default install of a Desktop Alpha 2 on an XP2400+ machine VMWare VM has
powernowd but a Desktop Alpha 5 does not. So I guess only people with
certain CPUs upgrading from pre-Alpha 5 install will get hit by the
powernowd freeze.  For example, my CPU does not support frequency
scaling and I don't think Dax's Celeron does either.

Grizzly, did you install off Alpha 5?  If you are saying that you can
work on your Jaunty machine remotely  then we have different symptoms
because I can't ssh remotely into the box after the kdm login screen
text cursor stops flashing. The mouse cursor doesn't disappear it just
doesn't move. All I can do is a hard reset. Does the KDM login screen
text cursor stop flashing for you?

lsmod output is attached. I am seeing CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y in the
2.6.28-8.24 kernel config diff so I think that means the modules are now
built-in.  They are available in 2.6.28-7 but not available in 2.6.28-8
apart from
/lib/modules/2.6.28-8-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq:
e_powersaver.ko.

Looking at the powernowd script, at one point it seems to decide whether
the modules are built in by checking whether the architecture is ppc and
exits sharply if it is. So I think that powernowd either hasn't caught
up with the changes being made to the kernel or the plan is to remove it
from the repo.

** Attachment added: "Antex lsmod output"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23510261/lsmod.2.6.28-8.without-powernowd.txt

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