On 6/2/05, Ronald G. Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> T42 is last IBM-designed T laptop, I am told. T43 is a lenovo design.
>
> IBM thinkpads running Plan 9 run HOT, as least mine do. They also run hot
> running Xen. Seems like ACPI really matters.
>
> We fixed a T23 here by cracking it open and putting good heatsink paste on
> the CPU.
>
> Our T23 had same symptoms as yours; all went away with the re-application
> of heatsink paste. Generally, the CPUs turn themselves off before real
> damage is done (nowadays).
>
It should be trivial to add the simple HLT idle logic, that should
keep things cool-enough without having to mess with ACPI crap.
-eric
