Re: Uppgrade from OpenSuse 11.1 to 11.2 causes Acer laptop to overheating...

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Jan 30 2010 - 14:56:16 EST


On Saturday 30 January 2010, Sebastian wrote:
> Hello,
> I desperately seeks help or any advice from kernel experts.
> I have Acer Aspire 5315 laptop and when I updated my OpenSuse 11.1 to
> 11.2 the laptop started to shut down to prevent overheat.
> I noticed that no fan is running and trying and playing with sensors,
> sometimes I get information from one sensor that always says 40C, and
> sometimes also
> from coretemp sensor that shows rapidly increasing temperature from 50C
> to 85-89C.
>
> I have this problem with base and pae kernel that was attached to
> opensuse installation dvd, and later upgraded it for 2.6.33-r5 from
> OpenSuse Factory repo - results the same.
> Does any expert have some suggestions?
>
> On several message boards there are advice that flashin BIOS should
> solve the problem, but IMO it can be the only solution - Linux shouldn't
> work that way.
> On the same machine i have XP and everything is OK, stable temperature
> is maintained, I also recently clean the vents from dust and other stuff.

First off, this seems to be ACPI-related, so added some CCs in that direction.

Second, since you decided to report the bug directly to the kernel developers,
would you be able to test non-distro kernels on your machine?

Rafael
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