My laptop is Macbook 2.1. I had openSUSE installed and I had never problems with the temperature.
With Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 I suddenly had random freezes and I couldn't figure out why for several weeks. Finally I came across several forum threads and wiki entries about temperature problems which finally made perfectly sense. I set fan1_min to 4000 and all the problems went away. Due to the randomness of the freezes I guess that a lot people do not know about the cause of their problem. Alex is right about the temperature limits. Therefore the freeze often happens after a continued limited CPU load (watching a video) getting the laptop heated up. If you then run a program at full load the temperature jumps behond the upper bound and the system freezes. I hope this bug is opened again, because IMO, this leads to shorter lifespan of your hardware. -- Minimum fan speed in applesmc is too low https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461184 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
