[Bug 570589] Re: Lucid: Overheating due to no PM for ATI KMS

[ngc2997]

I definitely agree with Richard - I'd also rate this bug highly
important, especially with the fact in mind that for ATI cards the
xserver-xorg-video-ati driver is used by default on a fresh installation
(correct me if I am wrong here). Also consider this might perhaps lead
to increasing reports about dying video cards and eventually to bad
publicity for the entire distribution. I might be a bit too concerned
here, but I wonder how long a card may actually survive when permanently
running on temperatures around 80°C (when idle, that is).

Due to fglrx not supporting KMS and introducing a severe memory leak
with compositing enabled, I switched back to the free driver just
yesterday, but chose to revert that, as I am heavily concerned about the
lifetime of my video card (HD4350, passive / heatsink) when using the
free driver with the temperature being significantly (!) higher.

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Lucid: Overheating due to no PM for ATI KMS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570589
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