Comment 31 for bug 1188647

I had looked at other relevant threads on askubuntu but I figured it was a kernel issue. I'll certainly work within the context of this bug to try to fix if possible. I'm on 4.9.0-15-generic but I just installed 4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830 and will reply with results (after removing the line from /etc/default/grub to disable pstate). Relevant info from cpuinfo:

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x29
cpu MHz : 3311.061

Threads (among many) that I saw on askubuntu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/296653/ubuntu-13-04-cpu-frequency-scaling-stuck-on-lowest-frequency
http://askubuntu.com/questions/353383/cpu-frequency-scaling-issue-scaling-max-freq-wrong