@Michael: Guess your solution is a non-solution here:
[258486.793395] i8k: not running on a supported Dell system. [258486.793415] i8k: vendor=Hewlett-Packard, model=HP Pavilion tx2000 Notebook PC , version=F.08 [258486.793430] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature [258486.793441] i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version [258486.793471] Dell laptop SMM driver v1.14 21/02/2005 Massimo Dal Zotto (d...@debian.org) As I mentioned, as valuable your workaround (because letting the fans run at max is not a solution, it's workaround), it only applies to users that can control their fan. As it is a workaround that applies only to part of the people having problems, it's best left as a workaround in the issue that people having troubles can apply. As to your assertion that it's easy to reproduce, it's obviously not. There are about 100 people following this issue, merged from most if not all heat related problems on launchpad. So even if only 1% of the users report their problems, that's around 10k systems that have this problem. While no one knows for sure, the number of Ubuntu systems is probably way bigger than 1M. Basically it's a very tiny slice of the market. Hence very hard to reproduce and fix. Especially as a description "my laptop shuts down because temperature problems" is basically useless. It can because the fan runs to slow. It can because the CPU enters not enough low power states. That can happen because of a bug in the kernel. Some userland problems. It's the equivalent of "doctor please help, I think something is hurting me somewhere, but not sure". (the not sure part comes from the fact that some of the issues might be coming from real hardware problems) While now the doctor tries to figure out what the problem is, your reaction is "stupid doctor, does nothing, why does he not give this poor guys the pills that helped me last week? Guess I need to change doctors!" And if you prefer Fedora it's your right to go there and pester them. Andreas -- Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
