<p>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...</p>
<p>I actually recommend them over NVIDIA these days. I can't stand the bugginess of the binary drivers on any platform, including Windows.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2012 8:25 PM, "Jim Philips" <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Many thanks for the suggestions. I will be sure to clean the fan vent.<br>
But the issue really does come primarily from the Catalyst driver.<br>
Evidence to wit: 1. No overheating in Windows at all. 2. No<br>
overheating in Linux when the Catalyst proprietary driver is<br>
installed. There is an open source driver included in X-Windows, but<br>
it doesn't fix the overheating issue on my model. So, whenever I go to<br>
install Linux, the clock is ticking until I install the driver. This<br>
is a known issue with ATI cards. Until recently, the driver wouldn't<br>
play at all with Gnome 3, but that has been resolved. I will avoid ATI<br>
cards from now on out.<br>
<br>
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just trolling for possible solutions: My laptop has an ATI Radeon<br>
> video card. Unless the Catalyst driver is installed, it quickly starts<br>
> to overheat. I messed up my Ubuntu install, so now I want to<br>
> reinstall. But when I try, about 50% of the files get copied to disk<br>
> and then it slows down and finally shuts off due to overheating. This<br>
> wasn't a problem earlier, but I think with each thermal shutdown, the<br>
> laptop gets a little more susceptible to overheating. Once Catalyst is<br>
> installed, everything works fine. But I can only install Catalyst if I<br>
> complete the install of Ubuntu. Any workarounds anybody can think of?<br>
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