Re: Tentative summary of the AMD/ATI/NVidia issue (was: Finding a tentative bullseye release date)

2021-04-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/04/21 at 11:04 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > B) In the installer, detect that firmware-amd-graphics or > > firmware-misc-nonfree should be installed, and either install it (?), > > or redirect the user to the unofficial installer that includes them. > > That could be achieved for an

Re: Tentative summary of the AMD/ATI/NVidia issue (was: Finding a tentative bullseye release date)

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ cc+=-x@ ] Hi Lucas, Thanks for your summary, I'm not sure about every single detail, but it seems to be a good basis for discussion. I might point to it from our errata page (I didn't have a specific bug report when I wrote the most recent entries):

Re: Tentative summary of the AMD/ATI/NVidia issue (was: Finding a tentative bullseye release date)

2021-04-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Lucas Nussbaum wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:30:03 +0200): > With Debian 10, the behaviour was that the installation succeeded > without installing firmware-* packages, and then, and the first boot, X > would start in a "degraded" mode (using, for example, the vesa driver). > The user would

Tentative summary of the AMD/ATI/NVidia issue (was: Finding a tentative bullseye release date)

2021-04-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/04/21 at 09:25 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Cyril Brulebois wrote (Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:13:15 +0200): > > D-I Bullseye RC 1 was published a few hours ago. And at the risk of > > sounding like a broken record: I have *absolutely no guarantee* to > > have a fix or workaround for the