Hi! > > > Well, I'm not sure its completely fixed. I got this in my syslog: > > > > > > thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is > > > extremely hot! > > > thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 95 47 N/A 89 47 N/A 41 N/A 51 > > > 61 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A > > > > And the extremely hot sensor is that 89°C, which is the GPU I think (varies > > from thinkpad to thinkpad). That is not normal, and I'd say it needs > > repair, probably a badly seated heatsink or failed thermal interface > > compound. Well, I'd prefer not to open it unless absolutely neccessary. It is my primary machine. > Hmm... come to think of it, the CPU is also quite hot (95°C), and it usually > shares the heatsink system with the GPU/north bridge, so the problem might > be on the CPU side of things. > > While it can easily be a hardware problem in the heatsink, we could also > have a screwed up ACPI thermal control in our hands once again (either > kernel bug, or bogus ACPI firmware in the laptop). Well, galeon (web browser) started misbehaving -- eating 100% cpu -- lately, so maybe that's it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
