Comment 103 for bug 370173

I know for a fact the fans are too slow, I have proved it. If you
speed up the fan, its stops over heating, plain and simple.

There might be other issues at play eating up processor time and thus
battery life. I wish a had a mode just for battery life....

Peace

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Michal Pěnka<email address hidden> wrote:
> arsenix: thanks for the link...then I think the heat isn't measured
> properly :( I can really feel the hot on my palms and I really do sweat.
> However, don't know any other way how to measure it :(
>
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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" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> 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
>