Comment 64 for bug 370173

Yeah, i have been using my own patch for my Dell Laptop. Basically i
have just been speeding up the fan to max. Its looped to fight to
keep the speed at max, it kind of breaths again. Its a dirty hack
for sure, but not as dirty as Canonical for releasing such as shitty
bug.

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import time
#apt-get install i8kutils
#sudo modprobe i8k force=1
while(True):
 os.system("i8kfan speed 10000 > /dev/null")
 time.sleep(.5)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:56 AM, kblc<email address hidden> wrote:
> So is anything happening with this bug at all? I would gladly submit any information required, if only I knew that someone handles this bug.
> But so far seems like the way to fix that is just to switch to a different Linux distribution which is not Jaunty-based. That's sad. :(
>
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> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> 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
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