I see I noticed my GPU fan is too loud (compared to Windows 7) when system is idle (no aplications running, just XFCE desktop with no eyecandy). I did smoe research and found this article, interesting stuff: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_preview&num=1 BTW, I see you are mentioned as the author of DPM in linux 3.11 kernel :) so maybe you can help. First, will it help reduce the fan speed when idle? If yes, is there a way to integrate DPM to older kernel, or need I recompile the kernel to 3.11 to enable DPM. Debian wheezy is using 3.2.0 kernel, and the next release will be using 3.10, according to documentation I tried recompiling to 3.11 using this manual: http://www.upubuntu.com/2013/09/installupgrade-to-linux-kernel-311.html (first I had to upgrade libc6 to newer version, I upgraded it to 2.17, from the debian 'testing' repository) but still i'm getting compilation errors (from gcc), mayby newer gcc is required then one present in my system, I didn't investigate the error much. Still, I don't know if it is a good idea to upgrade kernel to latest stable in Debian.
Piotr On 16 September 2013 15:15, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
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