Hi,

im new to linux and have a problem. Hope somebody can help me. I searched a lot to solve this and found a lot. But nothing worked

Running Debian i tried to install ATI drivers for my graphics card but couldn't get them to run. Mostly ending in black screen.
so i installed fglrx-driver manually. Im not too sure that it worked xD ... aticonfig gives me configoptions so i guess it did work
But i noticed that the graphicscard is getting extremely hot even if i'm not doing anything for a long time.

I really would appreciate help here. Let me know if you need additional infos.

greetings

- Which videocard?
- Which video driver version?
- Which version of Debian?
- How exactly have you installed the driver?

I'm using a Radeon HD 5770.
fglrxinfo gives me an error. oO I'm pretty sure this error was not there yesterday oO
uname -a says: Linux kl 3.7-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 x86_64 GNU/Linux
to be honest i'm not quite sure how i installed it because i used many different ways i found online :/

right now i have freshly reinstalled version... But no idea how to fix the heat problem wich is still present

At first, if you are new to Linux, you shouldn't use Kali, it is from experts in network technology for experts in network technologies.
Second, we will try to help you, but we are not sitting in front of your machine (and I am sadly still not able to mindread), so if you get an error message you have to tell us which error message that is.

I would recommend to start over with a more user-friendly Linux distribution, then install the drivers using their tools, distributions like Mint and Ubuntu come with helper programs that install the driver for you.

well i've got this kali-thing from a friend a wanted to try that... I used Ubuntu before that and had no problems installing ATI drivers... Anyway, it would be cool if i could fix this issue due to your (or others) help, because it's the only issue i've got with Kali/Debian...

so lets see...

fglrxinfo gives me:
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 139 (ATIFGLEXTENSION)
Minor opcode of failed request: 66 ()
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13


however, apt-get install fglrx-driver says:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
fglrx-driver is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not upgraded.

so it seems to be there...?!



edit:
sooooo.... What i did now:

aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') fglrx-driver
aticonfig --initial

fglrxinfo now says:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 8.0.5)



edit number 2:
it came to my mind that i would probably have to restart the xserver so i did:

etc/init.d/gdm3 stop
Screen turned black...
Pressed CTRL+ALT+F4
entered etc/init.d/gdm3 start
screen turned black and the top 30% of the screen showed a fragment of my wallpaper with a lot of green grafic-artifacts. After a few second screen was shutting down (no signal) and the pc rebooted. First the screen showed "out of range" but then switched back on and OS was loading normally.
When i type now fglrxinfo in the console i gett the exact same Error as before
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 139 (ATIFGLEXTENSION)
Minor opcode of failed request: 66 ()
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13

xorg.config looks the same as before i think...

:/