Ever since I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 15.04 in April this year, I have been beset by productivity-reducing problems. I had started off unable to get the login screen on booting which got resolved about a month and a half later when I installed some updates.
My latest set of problems though don't seem to go away.
- Heating: I've installed tlp, but the bottom of my laptop can fry an egg. A couple of times, the machine just froze and I had to change its seating on my table with more circulation underneath before rebooting. In Windows, the machine works fine.
- Closing the lid: This results in the machine shutting down. On re-opening the lid, it boots up automatically. I've tried the different options that tweak offers. Currently I'm set to Suspend when Laptop Lid closes.
- Projecting: The machine fails to recognise a projector or an external monitor. Nothing happens when I press the projection button on my keyboard. When I rebooted into Windows, I was able to project using the same projector.
I hope these can all be clubbed into one post since I believe they may be related.My machine is a HP Pavilion g6 with AMD Quad-Core A6-3420M with Radeon 6520G graphics card, which could be a minority configuration as far as Ubuntu is concerned, but is significant for a user.
