Powerbook shuts down hard when hot, patch found

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 22:58 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007 10:00:02 Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 12:16 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ah, forgot to say.
> > > It does not crash immediately when the register is written. It takes about two seconds
> > > to crash. And when the machine is colder to begin with, it takes slightly
> > > longer to trigger. That _might_ support your overheating theory.
> > > 
> > > Though, it does not trigger when it's up and running, no matter how hot you drive it.
> > 
> > Maybe the thermal control module prevents it from overheating. Have you
> > tried unloading it or loading it ASAP on bootup to see if that makes any
> > difference either way?
> 
> I'm not sure how that works. Can I unload the framebuffer module?

I'm talking about the thermal control module (therm_adt746x in my case),
not radeonfb.


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