On 4/14/2011 2:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > The last problem is that the acpi thermal thresholds themselves are > screwed up. With a single thermal zone on the system, I have:
Jamie reported that his was working correctly. I wonder if you are running a different rev of the bios? Can you see if there is an upgrade and what rev you are currently running? > well, the linked cooling devices are all of type: Processor anyway, so > that's not really related to the fan. Right; it looks like the fan is normally on hardware auto pilot and that the hardware just won't ramp it up to full speed. The ACPI tables only configure the passive trip point to throttle the CPU; fans would be hooked up to the active trip point if there were one and the ACPI tables actually complied with the standard. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746924 Title: kernel default cpufreq governor fails to take action when system is overheating -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs