Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3 solutions/workarounds: 1. the brutal one: deactivate ACPI in 2.6.18, have the bios keep control of the fans - better a noisy laptop until I upgrade the kernel than a fried box. 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone "crazy enough" to accomplish this task. 3. go for 2.6.19 Documenting arbitrary breakage in the release notes is not a solution, just consider how well manuals are usually read (if at all). Users will end with damaged hardware and blame us for it. We released woody with disabled ide dma due to somewhat similar issues (boxes hanging), so disabling ACPI in 2.6.18 and going for a 2.6.19 based 4.0r1 ASAP seems the best thing to me personally, but this is of course up for discussion. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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