Comment 66 for bug 370173

Andreas you are wrong. The problem is very simple and my python patch
works GREAT on my system. If you speed up the fan, then the machine
works like a CHAMP. By default the fan is too fucking slow and the
machine overheats and dies. I'm going to stick with Ubuntu until I
get burned again. (No Pun intended...) What concerns me most is that
the problem is SIMPLE but there isn't an official patch which is just
pissing everyone off.

Peace

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Andreas Kostyrka<email address hidden> wrote:
> Well, worse looking at this bug suggests it's a collection of different
> problems, and instead of trying to triage, reproduce it, and working on
> the bugs one-on-one, they are collecting it into one big bug, with no
> hope of ever fixing it.
>
> In my case, the buggy overheating leads to a situation where my laptop
> is not capable of running Ubuntu, without major nursing by a Linux
> old-hand. That basically destroys the value-proposition of Ubuntu. If I
> need to tweak, hack, and so on, I do not need Ubuntu, there are
> certainly distributions better suited to this.
>
> Basically, it's an irritating situation for me, that I can survive, in
> the hope that it will happen to get better, by random change, because
> one does not get the impression that Ubuntu even cares. Would the laptop
> be owned by some 3rd party that is not as well versed in Linux, this
> would be a major disaster.
>
> I wonder what would happen if I buy an installation support package from
> Canonical, and then end up with this situation? Would that make anyone
> care for this problem?
>
> As far as I've sampled this bug, Jaunty seems to have often problems
> with AMD based laptop, which makes one wonder how common this problem
> is?
>
> Andreas
>
> --
> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 9.04, fresh install on Acer Aspire 5005.
> Not sure about package, but it seems the problem is with CPU frequency adjustment or fan control.
> Laptop shuts down right in the middle of CPU-greedy operation overheated. I haven't seen it before (since 7.10).
> The issue is discussed at several forums (eg. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130450)
>
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>     *-cpu
>          product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37
>          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>          physical id: 1
>          bus info: cpu@0
>          version: 15.4.2
>          size: 2GHz
>          capacity: 2GHz
>          width: 64 bits
>          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm cpufreq
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