Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 [cannot change thermal trip points]

From: Len Brown
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 18:45:34 EST


> Something similar happened to me on XE3, yes.
>
> (Actual values were different; BIOS specified critical temperature at
> cca 95C, but hw killed the power at cca 83C. Setting critical trip
> point at 80C made the problem go away.)

Great, please file a bug and include the acpidump from the XE3
and we'll fix it, rather than supporting a bogus (manual) workaround for it.

Of course if your system is running at 80*C and the hardware shuts
off at 83*C, you may have a broken fan, or one clogged with dust...

-Len

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