FC6 - acpi: critical temperature

[Marcel Groner]

Andy Green wrote:
> Marcel Groner wrote:
> 
>> problem: the notebook is overheating all the time. when I'm compiling 
>> an application or doing other things with high CPU and disk I/O usage 
>> the power management is shutting down the system because the critical 
>> temperature is reached.
>>
>> does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix that? I tried 
>> to disassemble/assemble /proc/acpi/dsdt using iasl from intel and 
>> there were no errors at all, so the BIOS adaption seems to be fine.
> 
> I have one of these notebooks, the fans react correctly and keep the 
> thing working even under quite difficult loads (like a kernel compile 
> set to use both cores)
> 
> dmidecode
> 
> says this:
> 
> BIOS Information
>         Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
>         Version: 01SD
>         Release Date: 02/28/2006
> 

yea same on my system (dmidecode):

BIOS Information
         Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
         Version: 01SD
         Release Date: 02/28/2006
         Address: 0xE8220
         Runtime Size: 97760 bytes
         ROM Size: 1024 kB

maybe my fan is broken. andy, can you hear your fan? does anyone know 
how I can swich the fan on/off manually?

-Marcel