Comment 55 for bug 751689

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Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote : Re: ThinkPads overheat due to slow fans when on 'auto'

Confirmed that this bug exists in 3.2.0-17-generic. When /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to auto, my x201 will overheat when running a kernel compile. The fan RPM will not increase automatically as the temperature increases.