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

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 08.11.2011 18:11, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 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.
Thank you for the response. The easiest workaround is to use vesa fb 
driver - and this is the way I was able to install Mageia.
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> -- 
> Thomas
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