Comment 217 for bug 370173

@Paul, your right you agree with me, there is a known fix. But no
one cares, no one was even assigned to this bug for MONTHS. I'm
leaving Ubuntu because this bug system is so broken. Why about the
next bug that damages my hardware?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Paul C. Bryan<email address hidden> wrote:
> I tend to believe this is not a symptom of fan speed being too slow; I
> have experiented with fan speed (which I can control on my ThinkPad) at
> relatively high levels, with the result still being processor getting
> hotter than it should.
>
> @Michael Brooks: I hope your moving to Fedora means that your needless
> rhetoric and inappropriate comments will go with you. I've been biting
> my tongue (so to speak) in responding to your bitching here as though
> Ubuntu owes you something. We're a community, working together to find
> solutions. If your so-called "bug fix" isn't in the form of a testable
> patch, then it's not a fix. If you can't code, then STFU and try to help
> people rather than demanding it just be fixed. Oh, and peace-out.
>
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> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
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>
> 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
>