Comment 195 for bug 370173

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Todd Smith (td-smith) wrote : Re: [Bug 370173] Re: Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown

Do my eyes deceive me? Did canonical finely recognize this after 96
emails to my inbox? Andy you are testing this on a desktop? This is
a problem with laptops!!!!! Mr Prabhakar, downgrade to 8 or use
Fedora if you want an immediate fix.

Peace out

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Prabhakar Nagral<email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I have Lenovo W500 and after loading 9.04, it gets heated tremendously.
> Can you please fix this bug ASAP? Or else, provide me with workaround.
>
> Regards,
> -Prabhakar Nagral
>
> --- On Mon, 6/7/09, Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden>
>> Subject: [Bug 370173] Re: Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
>> To: <email address hidden>
>> Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 8:47 PM
>> All my testing on my kit here shows
>> the basic same behaviour with
>> 2..6.27/28/30/31 based kernels, no particular kernel seems
>> to show any
>> advantage.  This is on a T30, a Dell 1537, and also on
>> a quad core
>> server.  Only the T30 shows any strong shift up in
>> temperature when
>> loaded, but does consistently on all those tested kernels.
>>
>> --
>> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct
>> subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Ubuntu 9.04, fresh install on Acer Aspire 5005.
>> Not sure about package, but it seems the problem is with
>> CPU frequency adjustment or fan control.
>> Laptop shuts down right in the middle of CPU-greedy
>> operation overheated. I haven't seen it before (since
>> 7.10).
>> The issue is discussed at several forums (eg. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130450)
>>
>> ----
>>      *-cpu
>>           product: AMD Turion(tm)
>> 64 Mobile Technology ML-37
>>           vendor: Advanced Micro
>> Devices [AMD]
>>           physical id: 1
>>           bus info: cpu@0
>>           version: 15.4.2
>>           size: 2GHz
>>           capacity: 2GHz
>>           width: 64 bits
>>           capabilities: fpu
>> fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
>> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2
>> syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni
>> lahf_lm cpufreq
>>
>
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> --
> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 9.04, fresh install on Acer Aspire 5005.
> Not sure about package, but it seems the problem is with CPU frequency adjustment or fan control.
> Laptop shuts down right in the middle of CPU-greedy operation overheated. I haven't seen it before (since 7.10).
> The issue is discussed at several forums (eg. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130450)
>
> ----
>     *-cpu
>          product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37
>          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>          physical id: 1
>          bus info: cpu@0
>          version: 15.4.2
>          size: 2GHz
>          capacity: 2GHz
>          width: 64 bits
>          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm cpufreq
>