Re: 2.6.21-rc5: Thinkpad X60 gets critical thermal shutdowns

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Attached.  Is there some tool for decoding the DSDT?

iasl.  The documentation is the ACPI Specification.

> >> ezr:pts/1; cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
> >> temperatures:   72 55 -128 65 40 -128 35 -128 51 53 -128 -128 -128 -128
> >> -128 -128
> >
> > This is a highly unusual output for thinkpads, but might be the expected one
> > for your X60, the X-series has always been a bit weird.  I'd higly suggest
> 
> How would you expect it to look?  I did some non-conclusive tests under

I would not expect a -128 on the third position.  The other two -128 are
expected, as they are the thermal sensors for the secondary battery.  There
is also one less sensor than I'd expect.

> Windows, and I'm beginning to get the feeling that there is actually a
> cooling problem with the hardware.

This must be at least the third complain I come across of a X60 which boils
the CPU.  The standard fix from Lenovo is a planar card swap (motherboard
swap).  Since this *does* mean they replace the thermal compounds, and a
full reassembly of the heat pipes, it might be that just fixing the thermal
coupling between cooling assembly and the CPU might do it.

> It doesn't seem to help.  When its failing to control cooling (temp
> creeps towards 100C while under load), its going at ~3700RPM, which is
> about what level 7 does.

Well, at least the EC is not misbehaving, then.

> What's a typical max RPM?  I'm getting the impression that there's

More than 4000rpm, in disengaged mode.

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