On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Is this supposed to be a sane default for AMD Duron/Athlon chips? > > Apr 20 11:44:04 rawhide kernel: Critical temperature reached (65 C), shutting down. > Apr 20 11:44:04 rawhide shutdown: shutting down for system halt > Apr 20 11:44:05 rawhide init: Switching to runlevel: 0 > > What's going wrong there in FC4T1 and T2 as opposed to FC3? > > I can work around it by customising the trip_points in > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ but why is such a non-trivial step > necessary? That does seem a little low. If memory serves me correctly, the critical temperature for athlons is somewhere in the 75-80C range. What were the contents of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ on the older kernels ? If there's a BIOS update available, you may want to give that a try. Please file a bug on this, and make sure it has linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxx in the Cc: box. thanks, Dave