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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/21/2011 01:48 AM, PCMan wrote:

> So, does anyone know any distro without this issue?


That is likely to be *extremely* specific to the model of laptop.

Did you look at the info I pointed to at

  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed

and try out the tools suggested there for managing fan control on a
Thinkpad?  Did any of them work?  What exactly happens when you try?

For example, with the thinkpad_acpi module loaded, if you do

  echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

do you get the fan running at maximum speed?

> I'm not able to do development under Ubuntu as the laptop shutdown

> unexpectedly while I'm coding.


Instead of trying to randomly switch distros, spend a little time
working on the hardware fan control that your machine has, with the
software that Debian and Lubuntu make available to you for doing that...
you are a developer, not a newcomer, so you really should be able to
work through this issue and solve it.

Worst case, if the machine has enough RAM, you could run Lubuntu in a VM
under Windows :)

Jonathan