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and subject line Re: #660734 d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is
installed or the user warned about its lack
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regarding d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user
warned about its lack
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.35
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Hi
After a fresh debian installation on my laptop, all the screen goes black and
grey after a restart, because the radeon-firmware is missing. This also happens
in recovery mode.
I had to manually fix this by copiing the firmware files after starting from a
debian CD ROM. I first tried to fix it with different kernel boot parameters,
but they all did not help.
The problem does not occure when installing debian squeeze, neither when doing
an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy.
This propably concerns other Laptops/Computers with ATI grapic cards. Maybe it
is related to GNOME 3 which needs 3D support? (just a guess)
At least, a hint in the installer would be nice so that a user knows he has to
use unfree firmware or else he will be unable to use the system.
Thanks!
Josef
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_LI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_LI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages.
firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.99
ii linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.4-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
The process of installing firmware (and the firmware thing in Debian archive
as a whole) has changed significantly with Debian 12 Bookworm.
See https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003
and https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230219
So, (missing) firmware should be no longer an issue.
Closing this bug
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Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org>
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