Kernel 2.6 and CPU too hot warning

[lwj]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:41, Yves Vanlerberghe wrote:
> Hello, I've just installed Fedora Core 1 with kernel 2.6.4-ck1 on my
> laptop. After the USB problems and the setting up of the wireless card I
> went ahead and downloaded the alsa drivers and started to compile them.
> After about 2 minutes of alsa stuff I got warnings about the CPU being
> too hot on all of my open xterms
> Funny thing is that the CPU usage went up to 100% whilst syslogd spewed
> out these warnings. I interrupted the compilation task and the CPU was
> still at 100% and the messages kept comming.
> It's only after I closed the xterms that the CPU usage calmed down to
> 0-1%
> 
> Is there anybody here that knows how to either disable the syslogd
> messages or to increase the temperature warning level or knows where to
> read up on that, I'd appreciate that.
> 
You should probably not ignore these messages. You probably need to
enable ACPI for your laptop. Once I enabled ACPI for my laptop it ran
much cooler.

ACPI can be enabled by adding "acpi=on" (without the quotes) your
grub.conf. Add it to the end of the line that loads your kernel.