[Mageia-dev] [RFC] radeon firmware in non-free

Wed May 30 13:25:07 CEST 2012

mercoledì 30 maggio 2012 alle 10:38, Thierry Vignaud ha scritto:
+> Hi
+> 
+> I think we must discuss the following point for next release:
+> currently radeon firmwares are in non-free.
+I'm in favour of having working installer either for newbies or
+for those people that does not read release notes, errata etc.
+OTOH, i think if we can reach a good installation result 
+w/o non free firmware or by letting the user to decide during
+the installation (i mean no silent choice there) with additional
+media, on the network or local (usb key, non free driver cds, etc),
+it's ok as well.
+
+I recall anyway, that even our livecd is not that easy to get working
+in some cases we need to add xdriver=XXX parameter... right or
+not that is, the newbie does not understand that.
+
+Sure free is our choice, but from my experience i can say we have already 
+at least two users less, they put our dvd, installation failed, 
+they put (K)Ubuntu, installation went ok... should they have read, 
+or asked to me for that... but they didn't... 
+I believe they're not the only one.
+
+Cheers,
+	Angelo 
+-------------- next part --------------
+A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
+Name: not available
+Type: application/pgp-signature
+Size: 198 bytes
+Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
+URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120530/65ae5eec/attachment-0001.asc>
+