I've installed sensors-applet. I've got two CPU sensors - one is reading ~64 at idle, the other ranges between 61-63. I /do/ feel that the fan should be kicking this down - it doesn't sound active at all yet. And when it starts up, it really starts screaming.
As for the 80C comment, my kernel shuts down at 75 I think. Where is this logic, by the way? I feel there's a file somewhere that I could edit to kick the fan on at high speed earlier, but I have no idea what that might be. Could the NVIDIA beta drivers be causing this? I've installed them almost immediately every time I've installed Edgy. Where would I set acpi=off? Finally, here's the dmesg output. Hopefully this is somewhat useful: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/rails/primeengineering/trunk/app$ dmesg|grep ACPI [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 - 000000001feff000 (ACPI data) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001feff000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS) [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6e10 [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fefb6b6 [17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 ALI M1533 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x1fefeeaf [17179569.184000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fefef23 [17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD ACPIPST1 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fefef4b [17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 ALI M1533 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008 [17179572.120000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707 [17179572.124000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found! [17179572.124000] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c00) [17179572.744000] ACPI: bus type pci registered [17179572.764000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [17179572.764000] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing [17179572.764000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [17179572.768000] PCI quirk: region 8000-803f claimed by ali7101 ACPI [17179572.768000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [17179572.772000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 32) interrupt mode. [17179572.776000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *10 11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 *11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *10 11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs *10 11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10 11) [17179572.780000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 10 *11) [17179572.784000] pnp: PnP ACPI init [17179572.788000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices [17179572.788000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [17179572.788000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [17179572.792000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 [17179572.792000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [17179572.792000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10 [17179572.792000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179573.212000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10 [17179573.212000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179573.228000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) [17179574.408000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) [17179574.412000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRS] (37 C) [17179574.420000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRC] (39 C) [17179574.964000] ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:10.0 [17179574.964000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A]: no GSI [17179577.080000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [17179578.156000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.2[C] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179578.284000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 [17179578.284000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.1[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [17179578.336000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.1[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [17179595.072000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [17179595.328000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179626.416000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10 [17179626.416000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179626.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10 [17179626.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179630.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [17179636.156000] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) [17179636.204000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) [17179636.224000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [17179636.224000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] [17179636.224000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] [17179636.224000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] [17179636.340000] ibm_acpi: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.12a [17179636.340000] ACPI Exception (evxface-0545): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Removing notify handler [20060707] [17179636.504000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [17179646.508000] apm: overridden by ACPI. -- Laptop overheating in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/70599 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs