Try Michael B's suggestion in post #85. Based on his comments, I run the following command to reduce the GPU frequency (power and heat):
echo low | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile That drops the temperature for me significantly (by 10-25C). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563156 Title: [ATI Graphics][Lucid] laptop runs hot, shorter battery life, fan always on -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
