This has been driving me crazy for a month or so now. I recently made the switch from Windows 7 to openSUSE on my HP Envy 14 notebook. At first I thought everything was running pretty smoothly, but upon playing a video for 20 minutes, I noticed the bottom of my laptop was SCALDING hot to the touch. I had noticed the fan had been running a lot more excessively than before as well, but I hadn't really paid attention to it until then. I did a little digging around to try to see if something was up with my video card and it's not even detected by openSUSE. I have the drivers libdrm_radeon1 and xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd installed, but in system details it lists my graphics as Intel Sandybridge Mobile.
I read around and discovered that maybe I should install the AMD fglrx driver. However, I have attempted this twice now and both times it has caused a kernel panic and my laptop to restart in text mode. Perhaps I am missing a step or messing something up somewhere? I am rather new to Linux so any help provided would mean the world to me. Please help me to understand where I am going wrong with fglrx driver or if there is another possible solution to my issue. The problem of overheating did not occur until I switched to openSUSE, though I understand it is not likely the OS's fault. On Windows 7, my hardware worked like a dream, so it is not likely that it is buildup of dust or anything similar. I have since cleaned everywhere to eliminate that possibility. I'm almost certain I just need a driver that works for Radeon 5650 HD card, but as I have stated before, I'm kind of a noob, so that may be inaccurate. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this!
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