laptop - Compaq N610c acpi cpu fan

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:13:45PM -0500, Joseph Carlisle wrote:

> Howdy,  I have ubuntu installed on a Compaq N610c.  Using the default
> configuration the CPU fan will not turn on when the computer is
> running hot which causes the laptop to overheat and freeze.  I am able
> to correct this by disabling acpi during boot up by adding the
> following "acpi=off" to my menu.lst configuration.  Though with this
> setting I lose the ability to throttle my CPU to lower MHZ while idle.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks for your time.

Are you running the latest kernel?  Send complete dmesg output.

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 - mdz