[Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 3466] Add radeon-firmware in the Isos or add radeon.modeset=0 option

Fri Mar 16 23:13:55 CET 2012

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Priscus <bugzilla-daemon at mageia.org> wrote:
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466
+>
+> --- Comment #26 from Priscus <wizzard at twa-corbies.net> 2012-03-16 21:19:18 CET ---
+> (In reply to comment #23)
+>> > That is as intended: all radeon video cards need the firmware files for KMS
+>>
+>> Just fyi. My 7 year old Radeon 9200 SE doesn't have any firmware available,
+>> and worked fine without any, prior to Mageia 2.  With Magiea 2, I have to
+>> set radeon.modeset=0 to avoid the thousands of lines of error messages.
+> Probably because KMS was not yet the default for the Radeon 9200?
+> Needing the firmware is a rather recent development.
+> The R9200 firmware is the usual all-in-one radeon-firmware package.
+>
+> The beta2 still needs radeon.modeset=0 at first boot. I know it is in the
+> errata, but non-technical users will not look at it, and they're the one to
+> need it most.
+>
+> It would probably be better to configure it by default. This would give
+> everyone a working system at first boot (and typing the line is a bother when
+> you do not use qwerty: you get the a.m to guess on azerty, for example).
+>
+> It should be possible to automagically remove the line from the bootloader with
+> a post-install script in radeon-firmware, with bonus points for leaving it in
+> failsafe mode.
+>
+> Even without this last luxury, I think it is much better to give users a
+> working setup by default. The current version will give bad reviews from blogs
+> with more reach than technical know-how (I'll not give names, but I'm thinking
+> of some) and tonnes of questions/complaints in the forums, with users unable to
+> understand they all have the same damn problem (happened for Mageia 1).
+>
+> Mageia and the community would be better off without the noise and botheration.
+>
+> Best regards, and thank you for all your work.
+>
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++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
+