<div dir="ltr">I see<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div>I did smoe research and found this article, interesting stuff: <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_preview&num=1" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_preview&num=1</a></div>
<div>BTW, I see you are mentioned as the author of DPM in linux 3.11 kernel :) so maybe you can help.</div><div>First, will it help reduce the fan speed when idle?</div><div>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</div>
<div>I tried recompiling to 3.11 using this manual:</div><div><a href="http://www.upubuntu.com/2013/09/installupgrade-to-linux-kernel-311.html">http://www.upubuntu.com/2013/09/installupgrade-to-linux-kernel-311.html</a> (first I had to upgrade libc6 to newer version, I upgraded it to 2.17, from the debian 'testing' repository)<br>
</div><div>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.</div><div>Still, I don't know if it is a good idea to upgrade kernel to latest stable in Debian.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Piotr</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2013 15:15, 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="im">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Winter <<a href="mailto:piotrw82@gmail.com">piotrw82@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is exactly what was happening. Thank you very much.<br>
> Installing this package helped:<br>
> <a href="http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree" target="_blank">http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree</a><br>
> I'm reading about this package, and about firmware in Linux in general, and<br>
> the 'nonfree' term is a bit misleading. Does this mean it is propertiary?<br>
> What is the reason Debian distribution does not include it?<br>
> Other distros (i tried Mint, Fedora) didn't have problems with detecting my<br>
> GPU properly, so does this mean they included this package, or they did it<br>
> different way?<br>
<br>
</div>Most other distros include the firmware by default. Debian considers<br>
it non-free because the source to the firmware is not available.<br>
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Alex<br>
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> Piotr<br>
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> On 16 September 2013 02:34, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> 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<br>
>> > newbie.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Autodetection did not work, since I only have low resolution enabled<br>
>> > (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"<br>
>> > 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<br>
>> > 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 -<br>
>> > /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>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> Alex<br>
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