I added a sensor->meaning mapping to the 5,2 ubuntu Karmic page. My confidence in it's accuracy is low.
Experimentation on OSX shows that the temperature gets above 90 with no changes in fan temperature. I don't know if this means everything is WAD or what. -- Fan isn't working correctly on MacBook 5,2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434652 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Mactel Support: Invalid Status in “acpi” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: acpi The CPU fan on my laptop isn't working. This results in high (and potentially fatal) CPU temperatures. Running ubuntu for about 10 minutes and then restarting into OSX results in a lot of fan activity to try and cool down the overheated CPU. I am running 9.10 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 22 14:58:40 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia Package: acpi (not installed) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic SourcePackage: acpi Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

