Re: [Powertop] Strange Behavior - PowerTOP 2.0 Seg Fault

----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:28:39 PM Subject: Re: [Powertop] Strange Behavior - PowerTOP 2.0 Seg Fault Yes sir, the WIFI button. It started flashing (orange (off) to blue (on)) the moment I ran PowerTop and continues whenever I run openSUSE. I set the machine up to dual-boot openSUSE and Win7 Pro. Windows does not exhibit this behavior. I have tried a number of LiveCDs as well, such as Mint, Ubuntu, even an openSUSE KDE LiveCD, and none exhibits this behavior. Incidentally, a number of other things happened when I ran PowerTop on this machine. The screen went black and the WIFI hardware button switched to off (orange). After ~two minutes the screen came back to life, albeit at 40% power. I had to push the WIFI button to reenable WIFI. At that point, and since then, the button flashes. I also checked the BIOS to make sure no changes were made. I'm fairly sure the BIOS is unchanged. Sure. cms@6930p:~> ls -al /proc/cpuinfo -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 20:00 /proc/cpuinfo cms@6930p:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9800 @ 2.93GHz stepping : 10 microcode : 0xa0b cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm ida dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority bogomips : 5851.79 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9800 @ 2.93GHz stepping : 10 microcode : 0xa0b cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm ida dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority bogomips : 5851.79 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- Chris