[ale] laptop overheats before install completes

[Michael Trausch]

I don't have any problems with heat or 3D performance with the KMS-enabled
radeon driver. Actually they do much better than nvidia cards do these
days...

I actually recommend them over NVIDIA these days. I can't stand the
bugginess of the binary drivers on any platform, including Windows.
On Apr 4, 2012 8:25 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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