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[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section

+ Shlomi Fish + shlomif at shlomifish.org +
+ Tue Nov 8 07:48:57 CET 2011 +

+
+ +
Hello,
+
+On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:58:00 +0100
+José Jorge <jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
+
+> Le lundi 7 novembre 2011 23:26:19, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> > The most notable examples of affected firmware are
+> > - ATI/AMD Radeon cards (free driver)
+> > - Broadcom Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet
+> > - Intel PRO/100 Ethernet
+> > - Matrox G200/G400/G550
+> > 
+> 
+> I have used Broadcom Tigon3 and ATI/AMD Radeon x700 without firmware, and it 
+> works basicaly enough to allow users to decide to get the firmware by them 
+> selves.
+
+Really? I recall many problems running Mageia from the Dual CD on my x86-64
+with an ATI Mobility Radeon card, and my old (and now decommissioned) i586
+machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro card until I installed and configured
+the firmware from "non-free" and rebuilt the initrd.
+
+If you do decide on doing it, please make sure the framebuffer is not used for
+these cards.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
+> 
+> So I'd say yes it can and should move to non-free, as it is even possible to 
+> use this hardware without it.
+
+
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