[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section

José Jorge jjorge at free.fr
Tue Nov 8 13:59:41 CET 2011


Le mardi 8 novembre 2011 09:05:25, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
> Same BIG problems here. DVD default installation is de facto BROKEN.
> Please don't use radeon fb driver.
> There were bugs on it on our bugzilla.
> 
Which ones? On my hardware, missing the firmware does NOT disable free radeon 
driver : it only disables acceleration. I use this as a feature daily on a 
laptop which video memory is partly corrupted, so I am really sure that at 
least on pre 2xxx hardware it works (x300/x600/x700/x1300).


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