[ale] laptop overheats before install completes

[Jim Philips]

Many thanks for the suggestions. I will be sure to clean the fan vent.
But the issue really does come primarily from the Catalyst driver.
Evidence to wit: 1. No overheating in Windows at all. 2. No
overheating in Linux when the Catalyst proprietary driver is
installed. There is an open source driver included in X-Windows, but
it doesn't fix the overheating issue on my model. So, whenever I go to
install Linux, the clock is ticking until I install the driver. This
is a known issue with ATI cards. Until recently, the driver wouldn't
play at all with Gnome 3, but that has been resolved. I will avoid ATI
cards from now on out.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just trolling for possible solutions: My laptop has an ATI Radeon
> video card. Unless the Catalyst driver is installed, it quickly starts
> to overheat. I messed up my Ubuntu install, so now I want to
> reinstall. But when I try, about 50% of the files get copied to disk
> and then it slows down and finally shuts off due to overheating. This
> wasn't a problem earlier, but I think with each thermal shutdown, the
> laptop gets a little more susceptible to overheating. Once Catalyst is
> installed, everything works fine. But I can only install Catalyst if I
> complete the install of Ubuntu. Any workarounds anybody can think of?