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

Tue Nov 8 18:11:27 CET 2011

Kamil Rytarowski skrev 8.11.2011 18:46:
+> On 08.11.2011 13:59, José Jorge wrote:
+>> Le mardi 8 novembre 2011 09:05:25, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+>>> 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.
+>>>
+>> Which ones? On my hardware, missing the firmware does NOT disable free radeon
+>> driver : it only disables acceleration. I use this as a feature daily on a
+>> laptop which video memory is partly corrupted, so I am really sure that at
+>> least on pre 2xxx hardware it works (x300/x600/x700/x1300).
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884
+>
+> I can confirm that with non-free packages the boot works, without it
+> Mageia isn't bootable (with the radeon framebuffer) at all.
+
+That is not the framebuffer not working, its the kernel modesetting part 
+that fails.
+
+I wonder if we could get the code in initrd to check for missing 
+firmware, and if so switch to nomodeset boot.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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