Dylan, ok upstream's comments seem to confirm my own suspicions that this is most likely a hardware issue. Unfortunately if my experience with bad gpu fans is to go by, it's going to get worse over time... I'd recommend reporting it to your hardware vendor.
If you feel that it really is a software rather than hardware error, please work with upstream on the issue, and if it comes to a solution that looks relevant to include in Ubuntu please feel free to reopen this bug report. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- Graphics Card Fan Suddenly Stopped While Using Computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xserver-xorg-driver-ati. _______________________________________________ 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