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Re: temperature sensor powers off ibook?



On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 12:56 +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since two weeks my iBook is often powered off after I went to outdoor
> with it. This is the first winter since the kernel supports sleep mode
> for my iBook G4. I don't have any other explanation for this phenomenon
> than there is a temperature sensor in the iBook that shuts it down (while
> it sleeps) when the temperature is to low. Is this true?

Never heard about such a thing.

> I have nothing changed in the kernel or the kernel itself before this
> problems start and I see it only when I was outdoor. I carry my iBook
> only in a second skin and a backpack. Did anyone have the same problems?

Could be the movements causing a bad contact with the battery. Either
that or causing the book to wakeup (lid a bit loose ?) and thus causing
it to empty it's battery or overhead in the backpack.

> Have a nice weekend, Jörg.
> -- 
> Professor: "Gott", unverständliches und mythisches Wesen, das sich einmal
>   pro Woche im Kreis der Sterblichen manifestiert um Weisheit auf Folien
>   unter das Volk zu bringen.		(Dschungelbuch 11, FSU Jena)
> 
> 



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