Fujitsu lifebook A544, after bios update, kacpid using processor

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 16:41, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 15:44, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I booted into Windows on my Fujitsu Lifebook A544 and was notified
> > that there was an important BIOS upgrade which would make it less
> > likely that my battery would self ignite, so I upgraded it to the
> > latest (1.25).
>
> I spent some time digging in case that _wasn't_ the latest -- I've
> often seen apps update to a version that isn't current -- but it is.

The app actually updated to 1.24 (I think) and I saw the problem but
then found there was a 1.25 and updated to that, but it didn't help.
>
> Try some other distros, off USB? If they're not affected, maybe this
> is a glitch restricted to one particular kernel or something...
>

Good plan, I tried 20.04 from USB to make sure it wasn't something I
had messed up, I will try 18 and see what happens.
Thanks.

Colin