I'vel not tried this one, I'll report back tonight. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:38 AM, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happened to me too with my old compaq notebook. Turn acpi off for the > moment, and your cpu won't overheat. > > -- > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Martin Acupanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello PLUG, >> >> I have Ubuntu Linux 8.xx on an old toshiba with phoenix bios. I works >> nicely but unfortunately it suddenly "dies" without warning after a >> few minutes of cpu intensive work. I am quite sure its the temperature >> of the processor because the laptop's keyboard and case in the region >> where the processor is located gets very hot. The fan seems to be not >> working hard enough. I have already scoured the internet but found no >> solution in sight that deals with temperature or fan control for a >> toshiba with a phoenix bios. >> >> I have also checked the its heatsink but it is clean and not clogged with >> lint. >> >> As shown below /proc/acpi/[fan|thermal_zone] is not helpful at all. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/fan >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/ >> ac_adapter button event info sleep wakeup >> alarm dsdt fadt power_resource thermal_zone >> battery embedded_controller fan processor video >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >> >> >> Before I open it up and hard wire the fan to its power supply anything >> you can advice, share so that I can at least control the fan to lower >> the temperature of the processor? >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Martin Acupanda >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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