On Friday 16 February 2007 12:31, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Recently my notebook has started shutting down with > these messages in the logs: > > ACPI: Critical trip point > Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down. > > But it didn't seem hot at all to me, so I wrote a script to > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature once a second > and eventually caught this (but no shutdown): > > temperature: 47 C > temperature: 47 C > temperature: 128 C > temperature: 48 C > temperature: 47 C > > Google found several people reporting problems like mine > after installing lm-sensors, and when I looked at the list > of loaded modules I found k8temp and hwmon there. Then I > realized my problems had started after installing a 2.6.19 > kernel that had the new k8temp driver. > > So, could ACPI and the k8temp driver be at odds? Yes. -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html