Comment 18 for bug 213818

Sorry for a bitter post, but I lost a lot of work because my T60p with Hardy Heron shutdown abruptly just because I visited a website with some flash. I never used to have this problem on feisty or on gutsy. Therefore this is yet another regression caused by Hardy.

Here are some other interesting facts:
1. My laptop shuts down when the CPU reaches 99 C. My laptop is always running hot, 90C is normal temperature when the system has very light load (as I type this comment).
2. My laptop's fan is capable of spinning at 5700 rpm.
3. Ubuntu never runs the fan at a speed faster than 3400rpm *ever*.
4. When the laptop starts heating up it would be a logical idea to speed up the fan to 5700 rpm automatically.
5. Ubuntu doesn't speed up the fan at all, instead, it immediately kills my applications and shuts down the whole system.
6. I am not the only one with these problems.

I see two bugs here:
1. Hardy regressed power management. It runs the CPU significantly hotter than previous Ubuntu releases.
2. The fan control could become smarter.

As with other bug reports that I have submitted or commented on, I fully expect that this bug report is going to be completely ignored by developers. Good job guys.