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

Tue Nov 8 09:05:25 CET 2011

On 08.11.2011 07:48, Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> 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.
++ !!!
+
+Same BIG problems here. DVD default installation is de facto BROKEN. 
+Please don't use radeon fb driver.
+There were bugs on it on our bugzilla.
+> Regards,
+>
+> 	Shlomi Fish
+
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