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[rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alex for the input! Apparently the theory is incorrect, in as
much as there is still a heat protection function in the newer SMCs. It
would however be great to be able to confirm this on one of the other
machines, and then preferrably by anyone who has reported fans not
moving. Perhaps those experiments were never allowed to proceed beyond
the 95 degC required to set them off. Or maybe the temperature limit is
what changed? After all, 95 degC is a fairly high temperature :-)

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WARNING: Intrepid might burn down MacBook Pro
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262550
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Status in Mactel Support: Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in 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?