http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12994
--- Comment #5 from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@hmh.eng.br> 2009-04-02 03:39:06 --- You won't _see_ a crack in the thermal interface by inspecting the thing with normal means. If the thermal glue broke, there is an air gap (or more of one) between the CPU and the heatsink, you can't see that with the heatsink in place, and once you remove it, you need to replace the thermal pad/compound anyway... Well, your R51e is overheating by any sane definition of the term, and you're hereby advised that the machine definitely must have some grown some sort of defect in its cooling system, and that you should fix that ASAP as it will damage things further as time goes by. I don't follow what you say about the fan speed readings. They're usually correct, if the fan tachometer sensor is operating normally (and the fan has the kind of tachometer expected by the EC -- shouldn't be a problem unless you replaced the fan). If that thing is broken, the EC will drive the fan incorrectly, and that could explain bad thermal behavior. Well, please report back when you find out if an earlier version of Linux gives you better thermal behavior. But please make sure you're using the same cpuidle governor as you used to, etc. As a datapoint, latest 2.6.28.y seems to be working just fine on my T43. But I am not sure the T43 uses the same cpuidle implementation as the R51e. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching the assignee of the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
