Well, the following just happened with CPU ondemand + fan in
"disengaged" mode:
May 30 18:22:06 b4byl0n kernel: [ 1802.117685] ACPI: Critical trip point
May 30 18:22:06 b4byl0n kernel: [ 1802.117693] Critical temperature reached
(100 C), shutting down.
May 30 18:22:06 b4byl0n kernel: [ 1802.12348
Ok , I just realized that by setting the fan to "disengaged" makes it spin with
up to ~4500 RPM after a minute or so. I'm pretty sure it never reaches that
speed when its controlled automatically.
This is probably the problem: When controlled automatically, the fan is never
disengaged, and does
Same problem here with Ubuntu 9.04 on a Thinkpad T60. This is annoying like
hell, the laptop shuts down randomly while lots of applications, VirtualBox,
etc. are running. The overheat occurs on heavy CPU load with power management
set to "ondemand".
Hardware is OK (no overheat in Windows XP), a
