Hi Ivar

Regarding your observation: what kernel are you running now? It would be
extremely beneficial if you could go back to an old kernel that works.
What you are saying seems to mean that even if there is a BIOS bug (as
claimed by the kernel acpi devs), scaling used to work for you in Linux.
You could report it here:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13146

On the other hand, if you don't give them  away to reproduce it, it is
pretty much useless from their perspective. But just for them to know
might ring a bell. You would need to be a lot more specific though.

By the way: the kernel devs think now changed the error message in the
kernel, and they send people to talk to their mobo manufacturer (they
are _convinced_ this is a mobo bug; however, your case makes me wonder).

Best,
Leo

PD: My conversations with Foxconn unfortunately ended up in nothing
useful. I spent a month exchanging messages in an online form (which
seems to be the only means of communication with them). After lots of
trivial exchanges (I never got them to understand what is going on
despite my very technical and lenghty explanations), they sent me to
download and apply the "amd software". Surprise: the "software" was the
powernow-k8 module, which was posted by AMD a long time ago but has of
course long been in the mainline tree. I asked them if they ever read
what I was saying, since the very summary of the report I initiated with
them has a log from powernow-k8. At that point, they stopped
communication from their side. That was a month ago. If yhey don;t
answer, you can't post again until they do. Needless to say, that was my
last Foxconn product. But if you also bug them, maybe some day they'll
do something.

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BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands, 
Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363868
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