Hello:

I recently installed Debian Wheezy stable with xfce desktop; I am having problems with my hardware.

1. When I shut down my computer, sometimes I am hearing mechanical click sounds from my laptop during the shutdown process. I suspect that it may be related to soundcards; hp dm1 has an HDMI outlet and it has double soundcards, I believe. But I am not able to figure out exactly what is causing this click and whether I should really worry about it. Any suggestions?

2. I have an AMD Radeon 6310 Graphics card. I installed linux-nonfree drivers but I was not happy with it. My laptop was burning from heat after a few clicks on my laptop. I installed the closed source driver and now it is cooler. But this also made me to stick to the default 3.2 kernel of wheezy stable. From what I read from internet, I need at least kernel 3.7 for my laptop. My question is: if I install the backports 3.10 kernel, will I be able to use the close source driver? I tried to install the closed source driver on 3.10 without any success, I just want to make sure about it.

I guess bottom line I will need to leave debian for the time being and switch to an RPM based distro, like Opensuse. I gave it a try a year ago; opensuse is doing better with my hardware, but I don't want to switch unless I really have to. Any help or suggestions is appreciated.

Best Regards,
S. Sahin


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