[Mageia-dev] [RFC] radeon firmware in non-free

Wed May 30 12:21:49 CEST 2012

> On 30 May 2012 11:09, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+[...]
+> Offering the choice between working proprietary drivers
+> and NOT working free drivers is somewhat stupid don't you think?
+
+this is true, of course, except that iirc not all cards were non-working.
+
+i must add that even with my nvidia i had nouveau failing and had start
+failsafe to switch to proprietary driver
+
+maybe we should just be simple and have for all intel/AMD/NVidia cards
+just vesa driver for installation. at least it'll be working then.
+
+perhaps we can even ask the persons during installation, if we want to add
+awareness, perhaps this is the best solution for it.
+
+[...]
+> I'm actually planning to add a media screen in cauldron installer so that
+> one can enable/disable media.
+>
+> But that needs to actually include a nonfree/release subset on the install
+> ISO so that those w/o network can enable it.
+>
+> Detecting need for non-free could then be done (looking at modinfo
+> output for needed modules)
+[...]
+
+plz seem my email in this thread, it seems like a good redesign for mga3
+for this.
+