Re: setting sensor limits fails

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:27:39 -0500 (EST), Klistvud wrote:
> Yep. In GNU/Linux, this pretty much boils down to the thermal kernel  
> module. I believe if you have a borked thermal module, or you don't  
> load one, or you do but you set the wrong trip points, you can easily  
> brick a modern laptop.

I'm not sure if an IBM ThinkPad 600 qualifies as a "modern" laptop,
since it was originally introduced in 1998; but I run Lenny on one
of those.  In fact, I created a web page devoted to running Lenny on it:
http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm.
If I recall correctly, the lmsensors module recognizes the particular
sensor hardware on this laptop as unsupported and refuses to load!
Yet I have had no thermal issues with it.
Of course, I haven't deliberately stressed it either, such as
wrapping it in a blanket.  But I have used it extensively,
with no problems.