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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] radeon firmware in non-free</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Wed May 30 12:28:12 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 30 May 2012 12:21, AL13N &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">alien at rmail.be</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;&gt;<i> Offering the choice between working proprietary drivers
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and NOT working free drivers is somewhat stupid don't you think?
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</I>&gt;<i> this is true, of course, except that iirc not all cards were non-working.
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</I>&gt;<i> i must add that even with my nvidia i had nouveau failing and had start
</I>&gt;<i> failsafe to switch to proprietary driver
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</I>&gt;<i> maybe we should just be simple and have for all intel/AMD/NVidia cards
</I>&gt;<i> just vesa driver for installation. at least it'll be working then.
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which would be dead slow, won't support gnome once they'll
drop gnome classic and will make users flee and switch
to other &quot;normal&quot; OSes.
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