Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2012 20:10:04 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | thinkpad x60: critical thermal shutdown does not work (and ethernet overheats) |
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Hi!
I have rather old thinkpad x60 here. Long time ago, I noticed that on high continuous ethernet load, it shuts itself down in regular way. I traced it down to overheat, followed by ACPI signaling system to go down.
This no longer works in recent kernels. (3.4-rc7 tested, but probably it does not work correctly in 3.2 either). Now machine just hangs when it should start /sbin/poweroff. If I then turn it on, it hangs during ACPI init. I have to let it cool down, then it can boot.
Now:
a) Any ideas how to solve the overheating problem? Is it hw or sw? Are there workarounds... like should I go to 10mbit? (It overheats even under 2MB/sec continuous load...). Is it common thinkpad fault?
b) Why did it stop shutting down correctly? Can you reproduce it by overheating machine artifically?
Ideas? Pavel
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