Are you positive "chmod" disabled it? I believe powermod may be sourced
in /etc/init.d/powernowd.early, which does not require the file to be
executable. This is what I did in my powernowd instead:

--- /etc/init.d/powernowd       2007/05/09 06:32:08     1.3
+++ /etc/init.d/powernowd       2007/05/09 06:37:07
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 set -e

 load_modules() {
+        # disable powernowd because it's causing crashes on ST20G5 with
+        # the on-board video
+        return 0
+
         #stop the kernel printk'ing at all while we load.
         PRINTK=`cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk`
         [ "$VERBOSE" = no ] && echo "1 1 1 1" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
@@ -104,6 +108,10 @@
 }

 start() {
+        # disable powernowd because it's causing crashes on ST20G5 with
+        # the on-board video
+        return 0
+
                log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC... "
        if use_ondemand
        then

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System freeze with white screen
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