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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section</H1>
<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<I>Tue Nov 8 18:11:27 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Kamil Rytarowski skrev 8.11.2011 18:46:
><i> On 08.11.2011 13:59, José Jorge wrote:
</I>>><i> Le mardi 8 novembre 2011 09:05:25, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
</I>>>><i> Same BIG problems here. DVD default installation is de facto BROKEN.
</I>>>><i> Please don't use radeon fb driver.
</I>>>><i> There were bugs on it on our bugzilla.
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</I>>><i> Which ones? On my hardware, missing the firmware does NOT disable free radeon
</I>>><i> driver : it only disables acceleration. I use this as a feature daily on a
</I>>><i> laptop which video memory is partly corrupted, so I am really sure that at
</I>>><i> least on pre 2xxx hardware it works (x300/x600/x700/x1300).
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884</A>
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</I>><i> I can confirm that with non-free packages the boot works, without it
</I>><i> Mageia isn't bootable (with the radeon framebuffer) at all.
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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.
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Thomas
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