Fedora causes laptop to overheat

[Patrick Lists]

On 12-12-11 06:18, g wrote:
> if you had done such while still using the radeon driver, it would have
> been interesting to know before and after. plus, knowing temp between
> recent and last time of cleaning could give you an idea of how often you
> need to do such.

Did that. No change between before and after. The temperature still was 
high. Admittedly the fans etc were quite clean.

>> Yes the Catalyst drivers made things a lot better. Yet I would prefer to
>> run the F16 radeon driver but for now that seems out of the question.
> -=-
>
> as above, if catalyst drivers do not let you monitor, how do you know
> it is better? :-)

No more lockups and the fans hardly run. With radeon I had lockups and 
the fans would run fast.

Regards,
Patrick