Comment 87 for bug 751689

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Marc Grimme (elcody02) wrote : Re: ThinkPads overheat due to slow fans when on 'auto'

Lenovo T410s: still suffering from this bug.

Workaround as mentioned works:
Install indicator-cpuspeed speed down to 2400MHz. Running even during heavy load.

Boot messages related to think_acpi are as follows:
[ 26.215573] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24
[ 26.215577] thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
[ 26.215579] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 6UET61WW (1.41 ), EC 6UHT31WW-1.12
[ 26.215581] thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T410s, model 29249FG
[ 26.218353] thinkpad_acpi: detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad
[ 26.219014] thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
[ 26.221446] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is blocked
[ 26.224631] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_wwan_sw: radio is unblocked
[ 26.227516] Registered led device: tpacpi::thinklight
[ 26.228760] Registered led device: tpacpi::thinkvantage
[ 26.230837] thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one
[ 26.230935] thinkpad_acpi: Console audio control enabled, mode: monitor (read only)
[ 26.232826] input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input9

Kernel:
3.2.0-25-generic