Hi, I have the same problem in 2.6.28-rc5 and 2.6.27.x : my laptop shutdown automatically while working on it. That problem doesn't appear in 2.6.28-rc3. This terminal output show well the problem $uname -a 2.6.28-rc5 $while true; do cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature; sleep 1; done ... temperature: 51 C temperature: 51 C temperature: 144 C And then it shutdowns because critical temperature was reached Another thing that might be important : the output of dmesg Every 5 seconds this message appears (not in 2.6.28-rc3): ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN] to D3 ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [ffff81007fb656d0] 'off' Hope it will help you. Maxime -- 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