I now suspect the hardware to be at fault - insufficient power to run process at higher speeds rather then acpid
My normal power supply connector is not operating and I have to power the laptop via a docking station. The cheap generic (non-dell) power supply is aging and now appears to be not supplying enough power to power the laptop and the docking station. On boot-up I get a warning regarding insufficent power and have the the load the BIOS using battery power. This is related to other users experiences, [1][2] 1: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10106 2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=+403651 Regards, Brendan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]