looks like I finally found a solution I removed powernowd sudo aptitude purge powernowd
And now my laptop is not running into the high cpu usage for kacpid Hope this fixes it for good ..... http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg411824.html -- Jaunty: kacpid running at 70% of CPU Time on Pentium 4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
