Comment 37 for bug 751689

I sure wish a fix is released for this, since my laptop has become practically unusable since I upgraded to Natty.

$ uname -a
Linux mg-ThinkPad-T410 2.6.38-11-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 22:21:04 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ top
top - 17:28:33 up 8 min, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.44, 0.34
Tasks: 199 total, 1 running, 197 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie

$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +80.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +74.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0002
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 2: +74.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

thinkpad-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
fan1: 7312 RPM
temp1: +80.0°C

The BIOS setting is "Balanced" when the laptop is on AC Power.

$ sudo powertop
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) ( 0.0%) 2.54 Ghz 6.3%
polling 4.0ms ( 0.2%) 2.27 Ghz 0.2%
C1 mwait 0.1ms ( 0.3%) 1.60 Ghz 0.2%
C2 mwait 1.5ms (30.5%) 1333 Mhz 0.3%
C3 mwait 1.8ms (86.3%) 1199 Mhz 92.9%

Wakeups-from-idle per second : 721.6 interval: 5.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available

Top causes for wakeups:
  53.3% (413.0) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt
  14.1% (109.2) plugin-containe
   8.7% ( 67.8) [mmc0, hda_intel, nvidia] <interrupt>
   3.5% ( 26.8) [iwlagn] <interrupt>

Personally, I think the nvidia drivers also have something to contribute to heat since the temperature skyrockets as soon as I watch a video (flash or otherwise)...