Re: Critical temp shutdowns on ThinkPad X60 1706-GMG

[Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>]

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Hi Thomas!

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:39:45 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 11:44:46 Luca Capello wrote:
>> If anyone has any specific suggestion, starting from next Wednesday, Aug
>> 6th, I can perform tests on a clean Debian sid-amd64 (if needed, I can
>> install an i386) and with vanilla kernels.
>
> You should first try to reproduce this on a mainline kernel.

I know that, and I wrote the above sentence to exactly explain why I'm
not going to give other news on this subject before at least one week.

> Is the thermal driver loaded?

Yes.

> If it's a Debian specific patch..., I don't know how to bisect them
> but you should try to find out which one is the offender and post on a
> debian site.

I know how to deal with Debian [1] ;-)

> If this is a mainline problem you might want to revert all
> _OSI(Windows) from OS. Or better only return true for _OSI("Windows
> 2006").

In this case, I'll need help.  However, since I know now how to
reproduce the problem, I also have a method to test the different
solutions.

> If you have a mainline kernel problem, watch the list, maybe this
> patch will help you.

I read the list, thanks.  I was so surprised that no one reported this
issue before and I've already planned to deal with it during
DebCamp8/DebConf8 (starting on Sunday, Aug 3rd [2]).

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/LucaCapello
[2] http://debconf8.debconf.org

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