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My 7 year old Radeon 9200 SE doesn't have any firmware available, +</I>>><i> and worked fine without any, prior to Mageia 2.  With Magiea 2, I have to +</I>>><i> set radeon.modeset=0 to avoid the thousands of lines of error messages. +</I>><i> Probably because KMS was not yet the default for the Radeon 9200? +</I>><i> Needing the firmware is a rather recent development. +</I>><i> The R9200 firmware is the usual all-in-one radeon-firmware package. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The beta2 still needs radeon.modeset=0 at first boot. I know it is in the +</I>><i> errata, but non-technical users will not look at it, and they're the one to +</I>><i> need it most. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It would probably be better to configure it by default. This would give +</I>><i> everyone a working system at first boot (and typing the line is a bother when +</I>><i> you do not use qwerty: you get the a.m to guess on azerty, for example). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It should be possible to automagically remove the line from the bootloader with +</I>><i> a post-install script in radeon-firmware, with bonus points for leaving it in +</I>><i> failsafe mode. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Even without this last luxury, I think it is much better to give users a +</I>><i> working setup by default. The current version will give bad reviews from blogs +</I>><i> with more reach than technical know-how (I'll not give names, but I'm thinking +</I>><i> of some) and tonnes of questions/complaints in the forums, with users unable to +</I>><i> understand they all have the same damn problem (happened for Mageia 1). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Mageia and the community would be better off without the noise and botheration. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Best regards, and thank you for all your work. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Configure bugmail: <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email">https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email</A> +</I>><i> ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- +</I>><i> You are watching all bug changes. +</I> ++1. + +I can't recommend Mageia to friends when there is a high probability +that there system will be unusable on first boot. On two of my three +systems I couldn't even a command-line because the video for that was +corrupted as well. + +--Jeff +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013187.html">[Mageia-dev] freeze push: perl_checker, perl-URPM +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013188.html">[Mageia-dev] Firefox 11? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#13184">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#13184">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#13184">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#13184">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |