Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Logging out of Xfce will stop X, but then gdm will fail to re-load X. > It will complain of some "ddm" module already built-in. Worse is that > I still get this error. > then the kernel somewhat crashes, and will not react if I send a > halt/reboot command

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 8/17/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > 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" t

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success > running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a > basic system. > Thank you, this helped (I already had the fglrx driver built). On system boot X (and gdm) will

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/16/09, Klistvud 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 a

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Liviu Andronic skrev: I tried to switch Debian to use the fglrx driver following the steps suggested on the wiki [1], I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a basic system. / johan --

switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 8/16/09, Klistvud 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 i