I have been running with the open source graphics driver and have also installed TLP to try to reduce the temps I experience.
I thought I would give the Radeon proprietry drives a go tp see if they assist and installed those from the Driver Manager. On doing so Cinnamon promptly crashes on reboot. Reverting to the open source driver restores the system. I ran inxi -Fxz and the following is the output
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System: Host: laptop Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC version: 048E100000242B10000020000
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 147B version: 67.22 Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: F.14 date: 09/10/2010
CPU: Quad core AMD Phenom II P920 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 12768.4
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] bus-ID: 01:05.0
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M] bus-ID: 02:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1600x900@60.0hz, 1600x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (17.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS72505 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 9.1G used: 5.0G (58%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 446G used: 76G (18%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 4.02GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 60.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 159 Uptime: 6:05 Memory: 1297.9/3778.1MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
many thanks
Dan