FC6 - acpi: critical temperature

[Andy Green]

Marcel Groner wrote:

> problem: the notebook is overheating all the time. when I'm compiling an 
> application or doing other things with high CPU and disk I/O usage the 
> power management is shutting down the system because the critical 
> temperature is reached.
> 
> does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix that? I tried to 
> disassemble/assemble /proc/acpi/dsdt using iasl from intel and there 
> were no errors at all, so the BIOS adaption seems to be fine.

I have one of these notebooks, the fans react correctly and keep the 
thing working even under quite difficult loads (like a kernel compile 
set to use both cores)

dmidecode

says this:

BIOS Information
         Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
         Version: 01SD
         Release Date: 02/28/2006

-Andy