Comment 309 for bug 370173

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Gonzalo (gonzpk) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown

First of all (as I've read as much as I could of previous posts), I've got here by Googling my laptop model+overheat+ubuntu 9.04.
Tried the method on the post previous to this one, but my graphic card isn't supported by fglrx (at least the main version), so when I type "sudo aticonfig --initial", (after installing fglrx, I'm not THAT stupid), the output is "aticonfig: No supported adapters detected"

Here are my symptoms, and as much info as I know (sorry, newbie here)

Laptop=Gateway T-1625
CPU=AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphic Card=ATI Radeon X1270
OS=Ubuntu 9.04 (32 bits) ,kernell=2.6.28-15-generic

Symptoms: Overheat, fan always on, somtimes it shuts down, tried CPU Freq Scaling, but even at th lowest freq (800 MHz), the fan's always on.

I know that this thread is becoming massive, cause the symptoms are very generic, but it looks like my case is related to having AMD/ATI combo on my laptop