Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/16/09, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: >> P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free >> graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. >> > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during > "idle" work (hovers around 65-67 C); my Debian testing is using the > default drivers for this. On Ubuntu, however, with the proprietary > drivers installed, temp will stay below 60 for idle usage. (All this > with "ondemand" cpufreq governor. With "performance" temp is steadily > 75C, and the fan goes loud.) > > I tried to switch Debian to use the fglrx driver following the steps > suggested on the wiki [1], but I get into trouble. I'm unable to > perform step 5, > # modprobe -r radeon drm > > since I don't have the drivers loaded: > debian-liv:/home/liviu# lsmod | grep -i radeon > debian-liv:/home/liviu# lsmod | grep -i drm > > Could anyone suggest how to determine the driver currently used by the system? > Thank you > Liviu > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary > >
Hi, I didn't read the previous thread ("Laptop dv6650br...") so I don't know the details of your setup. Regarding the current driver in use, you can find it in xorg logs : grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log But no matter what driver you are using now, you just have to setup correctly fglrx and reboot, and you'll be using fglrx. Basically what I do is install the necessary fglrx-* packages, don't forget fglrx-source and "module-assistant", you'll need it later. I have on my working Squeeze amd64 system : aptitude search ~S~i~nfglrx i fglrx-amdcccle i A fglrx-atieventsd i A fglrx-control i fglrx-driver i fglrx-glx i fglrx-source i fglrx-kernel-2.6.30.4-perso64 <<< don't look for that one, that's the module built by module-assistant When everything is installed, switch to a virtual console (keys [alt][ctrl][F1] ) and stop your desktop environment with # /etc/init.d/gdm stop or # invoke-rc.d gdm stop replace "gdm" with "kdm" if you are using kde instead of Gnome, or the equivalent for your DE (xfce, Lxde, whatever...). Build the module with "module-assistant": # m-a a-i fglrx or use it's ncurse interface with: # m-a When it's done, initialize you xorg.conf with: # aticonfig --initial and reboot. A piece of advice, if you are running a 2.6.30 kernel the testing fglrx won't build, you have to upgrade xorg and fglrx stuff to Sid. That's what I am running right now and it works fine. Read about "package pinning", "/etc/apt/preferences" to keep a mixed system clean. Ati 9.7 fglrx installer won't build either, and (gentoo) patches floating around are no good with this version (might work with 9.6). Good luck ;-) Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org