Laptop overheating problem

Laptop overheating problem

[Tolga Onbay]

Hi,

I installed Ubuntu 7.04 to my hp nc6120 laptop. After working with the
laptop for a while  (changing with the load on the system)  for
example archiving an ~700MB directory, the system is overheating (i
mean really hot) and shutting down automatically.

I searched the problem on the Ubuntu forums, Linux kernel mailing
list, Linux acpi mailing list, ... There have been so many questions
and bug entries for this problem since 2005. But i can't find the
solution yet. Is there any solution to solve the overheating problem?

Thanks for your help

Re: Laptop overheating problem

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Please take a look at bugzilla.kernel.org #5534, 2.6.21 or later
kernels should not have this problem.

Regards,
Alex.
On 6/2/07, Tolga Onbay <tolgaonbay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Ubuntu 7.04 to my hp nc6120 laptop. After working with the
> laptop for a while  (changing with the load on the system)  for
> example archiving an ~700MB directory, the system is overheating (i
> mean really hot) and shutting down automatically.
>
> I searched the problem on the Ubuntu forums, Linux kernel mailing
> list, Linux acpi mailing list, ... There have been so many questions
> and bug entries for this problem since 2005. But i can't find the
> solution yet. Is there any solution to solve the overheating problem?
>
> Thanks for your help
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Re: Laptop overheating problem

[Goulven Guillard]

Alexey Starikovskiy a écrit :
> Please take a look at bugzilla.kernel.org #5534, 2.6.21 or later
> kernels should not have this problem.
>>
>> I installed Ubuntu 7.04 to my hp nc6120 laptop. After working with the
>> laptop for a while  (changing with the load on the system)  for
>> example archiving an ~700MB directory, the system is overheating (i
>> mean really hot) and shutting down automatically.
>>
>> I searched the problem on the Ubuntu forums, Linux kernel mailing
>> list, Linux acpi mailing list, ... There have been so many questions
>> and bug entries for this problem since 2005. But i can't find the
>> solution yet. Is there any solution to solve the overheating problem?

Didn't try 2.6.21 kernel (2.6.20 only). Don't know if you've read this :
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/22336 => Ubuntu's overheating is a 
known problem since at least 09/2005, but doesn't seem important enough 
so Ubuntu's developpers accord much interest on it... (Must be
disparaging... ;-) )

I don't know if this will help, but on my girlfriend HP laptop, I was 
able to workaround this Ubuntu bug by forcing thermal polling :
su
echo 2 > /proc/acpi/thermal/TH*/polling_frequency

Then the laptop still overheated, but tried to cool it passively before 
it was to late, so that it didn't freeze or shut down.

You could also try to change thermal trip points (have a look on the 
last section of http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/thermal.html 
but be aware that Len Brown DOES NOT LIKE this way of fixing thing (his 
point of vue is explained on this topic : 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/310)).

Hope this helped... If not and neither 2..21 kernel, just add your 
testimony on Ubuntu's bug report and try another distro... ;-)



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Re: Laptop overheating problem

[Len Brown]

On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:10, Goulven Guillard wrote:
> Alexey Starikovskiy a écrit :
> > Please take a look at bugzilla.kernel.org #5534, 2.6.21 or later
> > kernels should not have this problem.
> >>
> >> I installed Ubuntu 7.04 to my hp nc6120 laptop. After working with the
> >> laptop for a while  (changing with the load on the system)  for
> >> example archiving an ~700MB directory, the system is overheating (i
> >> mean really hot) and shutting down automatically.
> >>
> >> I searched the problem on the Ubuntu forums, Linux kernel mailing
> >> list, Linux acpi mailing list, ... There have been so many questions
> >> and bug entries for this problem since 2005. But i can't find the
> >> solution yet. Is there any solution to solve the overheating problem?
> 
> Didn't try 2.6.21 kernel (2.6.20 only). Don't know if you've read this :
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/22336 => Ubuntu's overheating is a 
> known problem since at least 09/2005, but doesn't seem important enough 
> so Ubuntu's developpers accord much interest on it... (Must be
> disparaging... ;-) )

I've read it, and commented:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/22336/comments/162
7 of the submitters had the problem go away when they cleaned
the dust out of their fan.

However, it seems clear that Linux isn't dealing with
a clogged fan as well as Windows does.

BTW, the Ubuntu developers are on record as thinking it is important,
they just didn't know how to address it.

-Len
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