<div dir="ltr">This is exactly what was happening. Thank you very much.<div>Installing this package helped: <a href="http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree">http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree</a></div>
<div>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?</div><div>What is the reason Debian distribution does not include it? </div>
<div>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?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Piotr</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2013 02:34, Alex Deucher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Piotr Winter <<a href="mailto:piotrw82@gmail.com">piotrw82@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello<br>
> I need help with radeon hd 6870 setup in debian wheezy. I'm a linux newbie.<br>
><br>
> Autodetection did not work, since I only have low resolution enabled (max 1280x1024)<br>
> I did the search and found Debian AtiHowTo document.<br>
> I checked the driver and I have already proper one named "radeon" installed (judging by synaptic package manager)<br>
> Then I checked xorg.conf and there wasn't any in /etc/X11<br>
> So I run "Xorg -configure" as root after booting in safe mode and got segmentation fault.<br>
><br>
> attachements:<br>
> "Xorg -configure" output - log.txt<br>
> xorg.conf.new from /root directory<br>
><br>
> I can attach log mentioned in "Xorg - configure" output - /var/log/xorg.0.log if needed<br>
><br>
> Copying xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf didn't change anything.<br>
><br>
> Anyone willing to help?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Check your dmesg output. I suspect you either don't have kms enabled<br>
in your kernel or your need to install the appropriate linux firmware<br>
packages for your distro.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Alex<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>