[Mageia-discuss] Update Mageia 2, Beta 1 Errata for proper radeon-firmware fix

Sun Feb 26 13:42:19 CET 2012

2012/2/26 Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net>:
+> On Sunday 26 February 2012 09:39, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
+>> It could be a nice possibility for those who want nothing from
+>> Nonfree and don't care about high graphic performance.
+>
+> Then there are those who want nothing from Nonfree but really do care about high graphics performance. The first does not negate the other.
+>
+> There really do exist people who want high graphics performace, but who are not willing to sacrifice their freedom in order to get it. Such people have a habbit of beeing carefull of their hardware choices, and some go out of their way to ensure the hardware works without having to result in using Nonfree software.
+>
+I definitely agree. I just said that people with Radeon chipsets like
+me won't be able to have high graphics performance without
+radeon-firmware. So if they don't want to use radeon-firmware, they
+will have to use a workaround which may result in not having high
+graphics performance, or work on improving the free alternatives.
+
+Still, I say it as a general statement, but in my case, I use
+radeon-firmware and I still don't have high graphics performance,
+because even with the proprietary drivers I can hardly play video
+games. I end up using Windows when I want to play 3D video games (and
+even recent 2D video games).
+
+Regards,
+Rémi / Akien
+