My dell laptop (N5110) gets extremely overheated with Ubuntu till the point that it shutdowns by itself although it works perfectly fine with windows. I am using Ubuntu 13.04. I have heard that many dell laptops have this problem with Ubuntu. Can anyone suggest how this can be fixed or even if a fix is available or not?
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This is the output of sudo lshw -c display
on my laptop.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:56 memory:f5000000-f5ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f6000000-f607ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:54 memory:f6400000-f67fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
sudo lshw -c display
to the question. So Laptop with similar graphic card may use same solution.