[Mageia-dev] [RFC] radeon firmware in non-free

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 30 May 2012 12:21, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
>> Offering the choice between working proprietary drivers
>> and NOT working free drivers is somewhat stupid don't you think?
>
> this is true, of course, except that iirc not all cards were non-working.
>
> i must add that even with my nvidia i had nouveau failing and had start
> failsafe to switch to proprietary driver
>
> maybe we should just be simple and have for all intel/AMD/NVidia cards
> just vesa driver for installation. at least it'll be working then.

which would be dead slow, won't support gnome once they'll
drop gnome classic and will make users flee and switch
to other "normal" OSes.