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linux-source-2.6.17 package

  1. Bug #22336
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 22336

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote : Re: laptop overheats when performing CPU intensive tasks.

Ah. I bet I know what it is. The ACPI layer should slow your CPU down, but
powernowd immediately notices that and speeds it up again. Can you stop
powernowd, make sure that powernow-k8 is still loaded and see if the system
still fails?