I had that problem with my old Athlon TBird. Changing config to make
thermal a module and not loading it solved my problem. I don't know how
to change the thermal limits from within the system using ACPI.


On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:56, bill davidsen wrote:
> In article <878yqpptez.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
> Florian Weimer  <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> | If I enable ACPI on my box (Athlon XP at 1.6 GHz, Epox EP-8KHa+
> | mainboard), it becomes very slow (so slow that it's unusable).
> | 
> | Is this a known issue?  Maybe the thermal limits are misconfigured,
> | and the CPU clock is throttled unnecessarily (if something like this
> | is supported at all).
> 
> There have been reports before, check the archives. I seem to remember
> that the solution involved changing some unobvious kernel feature, but
> others have had similar problems.