Hello everyone, sorry I have to make my first post a question and not something useful, but I have a pretty big problem with my Fedora 13 XFCE spin on my old HP Pavilion desktop (trying to give it a new lease on life).

I've been having an issue with my computer having a 100% load at all time, causing my processor to run fairly hot and the computer to drag quite a bit (for contrast, with Ubuntu installed this computer was much faster with almost 85% of memory full at idle). I ran top and found out that a process called kacpi_notify was hogging almost all of my resources. It seems to be variable, as in if I open a new process, it's usage declines, and when a process is closed, kacpi_notify reclaims most processor usage. If my system is idle, it will use everything I have.

So after some searching on some Fedora forums, I found the answer was to add acpi=off apm=off to my menu.lst file. I will post where I added it below. Anyway, when I try to boot after making this change the computer loads with this odd blue and white console mode progress bar on the bottom of my screen with the word "Fedora" at the end. Then the computer locks up and must be booted with a live CD to change the revert the menu.lst file. I tried changing the line to noacpi noapm, which after my PC boots, but has no effect on the process.

Also, trying to kill the kacpi_notify process is all but impossible with both SIGTERM and SIGKILL.

Any one else have this problem and successfully solve it? If any more information is needed, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

By the way, here is my menu.lst file with the modifications I made in the first kernal line.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_dmfnr-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_dmfnr-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_dmfnr/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_dmfnr/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us acpi=off apm=off rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_dmfnr-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_dmfnr/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_dmfnr/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.img