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Re: Unresolved overheat issue blocks development

 

So, does anyone know any distro without this issue?
I'm not able to do development under Ubuntu as the laptop shutdown
unexpectedly while I'm coding.
So sad. :-(

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On 21 December 2011 08:47, Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> On 21 December 2011 04:58, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>  Hi list,
>>> I have a long-standing unresolved issue on my Thinkpad R60 laptop.
>>> My Lubuntu gets overheat and performs shutdown automatically frequently.
>>> This happens since ubuntu 10.10 or 10.04 and I never suffered from this
>>> issue.
>>> Recently, the overheat problem became more and more severe and I'm not
>>> able to use Ubuntu sometimes.
>>> Switching to Windows xp and Vista fixed this problem. The temperature
>>> was quite low under Windows.
>>> I did some google search and found that it's a notorious problem of
>>> ubuntu.
>>> Unfortunately, I did not find any good solution to this.
>>> When I compile programs and browse web pages/documentations at the same
>>> time,
>>> the load of my laptop gets high and it becomes overheated easily.
>>> So recently I mainly use Windows xp.
>>> Please help if anyone has the right solution for this.
>>> Otherwise I have difficulty keep using Lubuntu and do programming under
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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>> Do you have the latest BIOS? Are there bugs reported with acpi?
>>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/213818
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> Looks like it
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