djchandler, I understand completely your predicament, as I am in the same situation (Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934). What I did to WORKAROUND the Radeon overheat issue was to utilize cpu governoring, as outlined in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerManagement/ReducedPower .
Despite this, as is known, the root cause remains is that AMD has made a conscious decision to not continue support of their closed source, proprietary drivers (fglrx-*) for later kernel versions with the HD 2000-4000 graphics cards. As a best possible, but infinitely unlikely case, the Ubuntu Community could implement (and already initiated via PPAs) hack-arounds, where tweaking open source packages that interact with fglrx enables it to work on later kernel versions. The problem with this of course is that we have no formal support from AMD, and the Ubuntu Community would be solely responsible for formally maintaining this heroic effort. This is not getting into the discussion of how would AMD perceive, let alone sanction this action if formalized (kind of embarrassing that an open source community is "picking up the slack" for something one would argue AMD should be maintaining). While I would absolutely love to see this type of support, I would never expect this due to the above, and given if the hack-arounded packages require a security package that breaks this functionality many people would rely on, it could be quite some time before a fix would be in place, if ever. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058040 Title: fglrx-installer not working with AMD Radeon/Mobility Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards in Quantal+ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1058040/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
