Medion AMD Turion 64x2 Runs HOT (CPU idle temp 46 deg C)

Bug #325805 reported by IceTea
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Bug Description

My Medion Laptop AMD Turion 64x2 is running hot after a while. Idle CPU core temp is 46-47 deg C and the fan does not speed up when workload is increased (ie. running anything graphical). My specs;
laptop
    description: Computer
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: vsyscall64 vsyscall32
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 0
          size: 1791MiB
     *-cpu
          product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          size: 1800MHz
          capacity: 1800MHz
          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 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch cpufreq

Thank you kindly for solving this!

Love Ubuntu 8.10 64bit!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

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IceTea (alamprou) wrote :
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Markus Korn (thekorn) wrote :

I'm not sure, but looking at the crash report it seems to be caused by firefox-3.0.

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

If this is still occurring on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" or later, AND you have an AMD/ATI graphics chip, keep reading.

Basic AMD/ATI power management is available in the 2.6.35 kernel (used in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat") and later. There is a dynamic method or a profile-based method. You can switch between the dynamic and profile-based methods by typing "echo dynpm /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method” or “echo profile /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method", and switch profile by typing "echo <option> /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile". Replace <option> with auto, low, high, or default. (Depending on your configuration, “card0” might be different)

You will not be able to use the better power management which was recently introduced in the upstream 3.11 linux kernel as it is only for AMD/ATI Radeon R600 and newer hardware. The fact that you reported this bug with the 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64 kernel tells me that if you do have an AMD/ATI graphics chip it is an R500 or earlier, as support for the R600 and R700 was introduced in the 2.6.30 kernel.

affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
tags: added: intrepid
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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Missing required logs.

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 325805

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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