On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Priscus <bugzilla-dae...@mageia.org> wrote: > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466 > > --- Comment #26 from Priscus <wizz...@twa-corbies.net> 2012-03-16 21:19:18 > CET --- > (In reply to comment #23) >> > That is as intended: all radeon video cards need the firmware files for KMS >> >> Just fyi. My 7 year old Radeon 9200 SE doesn't have any firmware available, >> and worked fine without any, prior to Mageia 2. With Magiea 2, I have to >> set radeon.modeset=0 to avoid the thousands of lines of error messages. > Probably because KMS was not yet the default for the Radeon 9200? > Needing the firmware is a rather recent development. > The R9200 firmware is the usual all-in-one radeon-firmware package. > > The beta2 still needs radeon.modeset=0 at first boot. I know it is in the > errata, but non-technical users will not look at it, and they're the one to > need it most. > > It would probably be better to configure it by default. This would give > everyone a working system at first boot (and typing the line is a bother when > you do not use qwerty: you get the a.m to guess on azerty, for example). > > It should be possible to automagically remove the line from the bootloader > with > a post-install script in radeon-firmware, with bonus points for leaving it in > failsafe mode. > > Even without this last luxury, I think it is much better to give users a > working setup by default. The current version will give bad reviews from blogs > with more reach than technical know-how (I'll not give names, but I'm thinking > of some) and tonnes of questions/complaints in the forums, with users unable > to > understand they all have the same damn problem (happened for Mageia 1). > > Mageia and the community would be better off without the noise and > botheration. > > Best regards, and thank you for all your work. > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are watching all bug changes.
+1. I can't recommend Mageia to friends when there is a high probability that there system will be unusable on first boot. On two of my three systems I couldn't even a command-line because the video for that was corrupted as well. --Jeff