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[Bug 262550] Re: WARNING: Intrepid might burn down MacBook Pro

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From: Alex Murray <murray.alex@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:48:53 -0000
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Am running Karmic beta now, but Jaunty 64-bit was rock solid on my MBP5,1.
Perhaps its a dodgy graphics card? Nvidia did have some problems with some of the 8600M GT's in previous MBP models (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377) perhaps it's something similar in your case?

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WARNING: Intrepid might burn down MacBook Pro
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Status in Mactel Support: Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-1-generic

Testing Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 64-Bit on a MacBook Pro rev. 3. Installing today's updates, the MacBook gets extremely hot and automatically goes into standby. This looks like an emergency standby caused by the EFI or something because it got overheated. Unless you put a metal plate or something under it, the fan runs on highest level at full power, which is not the usual.

Is there a tool you can see the CPU temperature with?