On Saturday 30 January 2010, Sebastian wrote: > Hello, > I desperately seeks help or any advice from kernel experts. > I have Acer Aspire 5315 laptop and when I updated my OpenSuse 11.1 to > 11.2 the laptop started to shut down to prevent overheat. > I noticed that no fan is running and trying and playing with sensors, > sometimes I get information from one sensor that always says 40C, and > sometimes also > from coretemp sensor that shows rapidly increasing temperature from 50C > to 85-89C. > > I have this problem with base and pae kernel that was attached to > opensuse installation dvd, and later upgraded it for 2.6.33-r5 from > OpenSuse Factory repo - results the same. > Does any expert have some suggestions? > > On several message boards there are advice that flashin BIOS should > solve the problem, but IMO it can be the only solution - Linux shouldn't > work that way. > On the same machine i have XP and everything is OK, stable temperature > is maintained, I also recently clean the vents from dust and other stuff. First off, this seems to be ACPI-related, so added some CCs in that direction. Second, since you decided to report the bug directly to the kernel developers, would you be able to test non-distro kernels on your machine? Rafael -- 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
