Comment 19 for bug 412167

I am very sorry to come back that late...
> What a terrific critical temperature
Yep, this is a BIOS bug, but nevertheless the thermal zone shouldn't get ignored totally.
I added a patch which should show up in some hours here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/x86_64
Best double check if the change is included:
rpm -qp --changelog kernel-default.rpm |less
Fri Feb 12 16:57:20 CET 2010 - <email address hidden>

- patches.fixes/acpi_fix_no_critical_tp.patch: ACPI thermal:
  Don't invalidate thermal zone if critical trip point is bad
  (bnc#531547).

Then install the kernel additionally (like that you can just test boot it and you can fall back to your old kernel matching the distri):
rpm -ivh kernel-default.rpm kernel-base.rpm # eventually kernel-desktop,
                                              # doesn't matter
Eventually edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to make sure the kernel gets booted or selected on next reboot in grub boot menu.