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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #22336
  2. Comment #83

Comment 83 for bug 22336

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Зоран Рилак (zoran.rilak) wrote : Re: laptop overheats when performing CPU intensive tasks.

I've had the same issue with my TravelMate 4404WLMi with a Turion ML-34 processor. Dapper worked fine, both x86 and amd64, while I had to run Edgy amd64 with scaling_max_frequency bolted to 800000 to prevent overheating. Turned out that polling was disabled. After setting the TZS0/polling_frequency to 1 second, things started working, ondemand scheduler now knows about CPU temperature and I have no need for powernowd.

I wonder why polling wasn't enabled in the first place.