On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote: > (for some reason I cannot get blacklisting of i8k to work). hope this Neither: $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/i8k-blacklist.conf # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732242 blacklist i8k Nor: $ cat /etc/default/grub [...] GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet i8k.blacklist=yes" $ sudo update-grub does seems to work (=blacklist i8k) for me.