On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > This is exactly what was happening. Thank you very much. > Installing this package helped: > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree > I'm reading about this package, and about firmware in Linux in general, and > the 'nonfree' term is a bit misleading. Does this mean it is propertiary? > What is the reason Debian distribution does not include it? > Other distros (i tried Mint, Fedora) didn't have problems with detecting my > GPU properly, so does this mean they included this package, or they did it > different way?
Most other distros include the firmware by default. Debian considers it non-free because the source to the firmware is not available. Alex > > > > Piotr > > > > On 16 September 2013 02:34, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Piotr Winter <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello >> > I need help with radeon hd 6870 setup in debian wheezy. I'm a linux >> > newbie. >> > >> > Autodetection did not work, since I only have low resolution enabled >> > (max 1280x1024) >> > I did the search and found Debian AtiHowTo document. >> > I checked the driver and I have already proper one named "radeon" >> > installed (judging by synaptic package manager) >> > Then I checked xorg.conf and there wasn't any in /etc/X11 >> > So I run "Xorg -configure" as root after booting in safe mode and got >> > segmentation fault. >> > >> > attachements: >> > "Xorg -configure" output - log.txt >> > xorg.conf.new from /root directory >> > >> > I can attach log mentioned in "Xorg - configure" output - >> > /var/log/xorg.0.log if needed >> > >> > Copying xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf didn't change anything. >> > >> > Anyone willing to help? >> >> >> Check your dmesg output. I suspect you either don't have kms enabled >> in your kernel or your need to install the appropriate linux firmware >> packages for your distro. >> >> Alex > > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
