[ale] laptop overheats before install completes

[Rich Faulkner]

Can you get thermal readings through lmsensors or other tools?

Sounds like thermal controls are set such that the driver does not
provide proper cooling;
or throttling of the fan.  I have used a Windows tool (at work) from an
F/LOSS project 
called Open Hardware Monitor (includes a Linux port) that has given good
results.  I
might suggest getting some data on system temps and see if you can
further nail down
where the issue lays.  

See:  http://openhardwaremonitor.org/  for more information...

It may well be that the driver support for fan control isn't properly
implemented on your 
hardware or it is missing altogether.  Dunno...worth delving into a
little more I would think...

Cheers!   

RinL



On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 20:25 -0400, Jim Philips 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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