Hello, On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 06:09:42 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> So, I suppose this requires an entirely new udeb, meant to install >> firmware for hardware such as video cards, etc. and run it at the end >> of the install process. The current packages such as hwdetect are >> meant to run at the beginning of the process, when it's needed to >> detect wireless cards or disk drives. ....and when nobody really cares >> about video cards. >> >> Just a wild guess: I know nearly nothing about all this crap..:-) >> > I guess the problem is that the installer doesn't have the drm modules > so it doesn't know what firmware they might need? Ideally this would be > handled together with other firmware installation. > > That said, now that I look at the bug title, X shouldn't hang even if > firmware is missing, it should be able to start without acceleration. I > think. Might warrant a separate bug report against > xserver-xorg-video-radeon, if there isn't one already.
This is supposely to be handled by discover step at pkgsel; I think it is just a matter of providing the need data for its database to fix it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org