Comment 208 for bug 370173

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

Andy, why hasn't Canonical released a fix to speed up the fan? It
has been MONTHS and this issues affects everyone at some level. There
are so many people on this thread, the bug is obvious like cerebral
palsy.

peace

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:47 AM, CharleyS<email address hidden> wrote:
> ACPI dump
>
> ** Attachment added: "ACPI dump"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28844512/acpidump.txt
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> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
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> 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)
>
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>     *-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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