CrunchBang Linux

No, i always install the .run file

in debian when i try to install that, it says that i need some packages to complete the installation and then stops. I found the modules to install but still don't work. I think i tried everything.

the only think that does not crack the system is what they say in the debian.org website. But i still have very poor perfomemce and high temperatures.

thanks for ur interest

yeah, there are some posts that try to offer some solutions. But no one works very good for me. And i follow them step by step. Most of them just cracked the system. But with another one you can reduce a bit the heat of the laptop and config your graphic card.
I did these rules given by the guys of debian step by step ¡¡: https://wiki.debian.org/es/ATIProprietary

whenever i have installed the 13.1 pack of ATI in other distros, everything was ok. But, i dunno why, in debian ( and crunchbang) tryng to configure the GPU is like hell

Thanks anyway

hi again. I have a Radeon HD 4**** series so my problem is similar to yours. The process i posted above worked for me.
Without a driver for the graphic card, my PC with youtube was in 65-75 C, and 53-56 in idle
Now whith the driver installed, when it´s at full work it does not increase above 62-65 C, and 47 in idle. The normal temperature in these hardware.
But anyway in windows works better. More quality in HD, beter control of brightness, less temperature ( with flash, youtube, ·D acceleration, never more than 60 C, and also no problems with suspend mode.
I´m tryng to leave windows, but linux is ver hard for people without knowledge of computers.

but i must say, that with linux mint or ubuntu with a kernel below 3.5 , downloading the drivers from the AMD website and just bashing them and rebooting, it works very good (except 3D acceleration graphics: very poor performance. Whenever i have to work with 3d programs, i am forced to return to the windows partition.. ) .  With debian or crunchbang is another story. More difficult for newbies to get a good peformance even with 2D graphic acceleration..

but at least you can get your laptop not to heat very much with, for example, the solution i posted above

people offers you many difrente solutions. The most of them just crashed my graphic environment. bUt some of them works more or less. Still haven´t found the final solution to get a 100% performance as i have with windows..

thanks, but that was not the solution.I tried that with another distos and debian, but the system messed up.

The only that worked for me (in debian) was:

i had to give permissions for:

# Paquetes adaptados para Debian 7 «Wheezy»
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

and then

# aptitude update
# aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,')
# aptitude -r -t wheezy-backports install fglrx-legacy-driver

in other distros, i had to download de .run package of AMD official website and bash it. It was better as it also installed the amd catalyst center. So in other distros my graphic card works better than in pure debian.

In pure debian you must have more knowledge and prepare the kernel before install the propietary driver

so they left the solution here: http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free. It does everything except install the catalyst control center ( i suppose)

ATI cards are always a problem with linux