William K Helbig Jr wrote:
Firstly a minor typo in the third paragraph of the About Firmware section of
Chapter 3 in the SVN version of the BLFS book. The line reads “firmware files
can be accessed vau wget”. That probably should be ”firmware files can be
accessed via wget”.
I'll update that at the next commit.
Next a comment/question about Firmware for ATI video chips. The method shown in
this chapter shows making the radeon driver a module but when I do this then
boot the resulting system two things happen. First, no Penguins! Second, and
more importantly, the login prompt does not appear until I hit the enter key.
The system seems to work properly otherwise, meaning I have an active
framebuffer device that I can write to and see a response. When the firmware is
built into the kernel everything functions as expected.
The nuts and bolts of my system:
LFS-systemd 7.7
AMD A10-7850K APU
Kaveri [Radeon R7 200 Series]
Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250]
The question is, Since this behavior is not a show stopper is it a problem I
need to be concerned about, or is it just the way things want to work?
I don't have any ATI video cards so I can't really help there. Perhaps Ken may
have some ideas.
-- Bruce
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