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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 3466] Add radeon-firmware in the Isos or add radeon.modeset=0 option</H1>
<B>Jeff Robins</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 3466] Add radeon-firmware in the Isos or add radeon.modeset=0 option">jeffrobinssae at gmail.com
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<I>Fri Mar 16 23:13:55 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Priscus <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bugzilla-daemon at mageia.org</A>> wrote:
><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466</A>
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</I>><i> --- Comment #26 from Priscus <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">wizzard at twa-corbies.net</A>> 2012-03-16 21:19:18 CET ---
</I>><i> (In reply to comment #23)
</I>>><i> > That is as intended: all radeon video cards need the firmware files for KMS
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Just fyi. My 7 year old Radeon 9200 SE doesn't have any firmware available,
</I>>><i> and worked fine without any, prior to Mageia 2.  With Magiea 2, I have to
</I>>><i> set radeon.modeset=0 to avoid the thousands of lines of error messages.
</I>><i> Probably because KMS was not yet the default for the Radeon 9200?
</I>><i> Needing the firmware is a rather recent development.
</I>><i> The R9200 firmware is the usual all-in-one radeon-firmware package.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The beta2 still needs radeon.modeset=0 at first boot. I know it is in the
</I>><i> errata, but non-technical users will not look at it, and they're the one to
</I>><i> need it most.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It would probably be better to configure it by default. This would give
</I>><i> everyone a working system at first boot (and typing the line is a bother when
</I>><i> you do not use qwerty: you get the a.m to guess on azerty, for example).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It should be possible to automagically remove the line from the bootloader with
</I>><i> a post-install script in radeon-firmware, with bonus points for leaving it in
</I>><i> failsafe mode.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Even without this last luxury, I think it is much better to give users a
</I>><i> working setup by default. The current version will give bad reviews from blogs
</I>><i> with more reach than technical know-how (I'll not give names, but I'm thinking
</I>><i> of some) and tonnes of questions/complaints in the forums, with users unable to
</I>><i> understand they all have the same damn problem (happened for Mageia 1).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Mageia and the community would be better off without the noise and botheration.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 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
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