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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section</H1>
    <B>Shlomi Fish</B> 
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<PRE>Hello,

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:58:00 +0100
Jos&#233; Jorge &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jjorge at free.fr</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> Le lundi 7 novembre 2011 23:26:19, Anssi Hannula a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; The most notable examples of affected firmware are
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; - ATI/AMD Radeon cards (free driver)
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; - Broadcom Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; - Intel PRO/100 Ethernet
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; - Matrox G200/G400/G550
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I have used Broadcom Tigon3 and ATI/AMD Radeon x700 without firmware, and it 
</I>&gt;<i> works basicaly enough to allow users to decide to get the firmware by them 
</I>&gt;<i> selves.
</I>
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 &quot;non-free&quot; and rebuilt the initrd.

If you do decide on doing it, please make sure the framebuffer is not used for
these cards.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So I'd say yes it can and should move to non-free, as it is even possible to 
</I>&gt;<i> use this hardware without it.
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