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My laptop is an Asus A46CM with Intel CPU and Nvidia Graphics. When I use Ubuntu my system runs very hot and I am unable to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers. In about 15 minutes my laptop will freeze due to the heat. I've tried other distros but they all seem to do the same thing. Can Ubuntu help with this? If so, how?

KGIII
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Syukur
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    Are you using any of the thermal management programs? I use tlp which you can install in 15.10 with sudo apt-get install --install-suggests tlp You should also consider cleaning the fans in your laptop and making sure that they work. – Charles Green Nov 11 '15 at 14:23
  • umm btw i'm using 12.04 because use 15.10 only 10 min to make my laptop hang plus Internt provider in m,y country very slow i think idon't do much in 15.10 so i downgrade it to 12.04.

    does your advice can work in 12.04?

     – Syukur Nov 12 '15 at 14:28
  • You can run tlp on 12.04, but you need to load from the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~linrunner/+archive/ubuntu/tlp – Charles Green Nov 12 '15 at 14:45
  • i'm very sorry i'm very noob in linux can you teach ppa? and how to load? – Syukur Nov 13 '15 at 00:34
  • Apart from Thermald and TLP, make sure your video card drivers are installed. Most likely your heating issues are coming from nvidia card thats permanently on. For the nvidia card, the driver would allow you to turn the card on and off from the nvidia settings applet. – Arup Roy Chowdhury Nov 13 '15 at 00:46
  • TLP installation from PPA: http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html#installation (or see answer below) – linrunner Nov 13 '15 at 18:16

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Thermald has been shipped with Ubuntu since Trusty and may help resolve your issue.

sudo apt-get install thermald

The default mode should work fine, however, for some machines one may need to tweak the configuration file. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement/ThermalIssues

Colin Ian King
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To install TLP, open a terminal window (press alt+ctrl+t) and enter the following commands

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp --install suggests
sudo tlp start
sudo reboot

Tlp as configured by default should help, however @ArupRoyChowdhury is correct that ensuring you have a valid video driver will have a great effect. I do not use Nvidia myself, and suggest you post a seperate question about how to install the correct driver for your system

Charles Green
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