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If this is still occurring on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" or later,
AND you have an AMD/ATI graphics chip, keep reading.

Basic AMD/ATI power management is available in the 2.6.35 kernel (used
in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat") and later.  There is a dynamic
method or a profile-based method. You can switch between the dynamic and
profile-based methods by typing "echo dynpm
/sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method” or “echo profile
/sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method", and switch profile by typing
"echo <option> /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile".  Replace
<option> with auto, low, high, or default.  (Depending on your
configuration, “card0” might be different)

You will not be able to use the better power management which was
recently introduced in the upstream 3.11 linux kernel as it is only for
AMD/ATI Radeon R600 and newer hardware.  The fact that you reported this
bug with the 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64 kernel tells me that if you do
have an AMD/ATI graphics chip it is an R500 or earlier, as support for
the R600 and R700 was introduced in the 2.6.30 kernel.

** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: intrepid

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Title:
  Medion AMD Turion 64x2 Runs HOT (CPU idle temp 46 deg C)

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My Medion Laptop AMD Turion 64x2 is running hot after a while. Idle CPU core temp is 46-47 deg C and the fan does not speed up when workload is increased (ie. running anything graphical). My specs;
  laptop                    
      description: Computer
      width: 64 bits
      capabilities: vsyscall64 vsyscall32
    *-core
         description: Motherboard
         physical id: 0
       *-memory
            description: System memory
            physical id: 0
            size: 1791MiB
       *-cpu
            product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
            vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
            physical id: 1
            bus info: cpu@0
            size: 1800MHz
            capacity: 1800MHz
            width: 64 bits
            capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch cpufreq

  
  Thank you kindly for solving this!

  Love Ubuntu 8.10 64bit!

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

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