Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]> wrote (12 May 2013 16:12:02): > Hardware detection claimed my Ethernet card needed non-free firmware to > operate. This was reported as #706659. > As usual, os-prober misdetected Windows, as reported in #666764. > > The real fun started after d-i finished its job. The installed system was > mostly unusable. Thanks to tty-s, it was possible to identify a kernel bug > and work around it by upgrading to > Linux 3.8 (see #701054). From there, the system was mostly > usable. The main problem left was the poor screen resolution due to the poor > X.org driver used (vesa). The graphics chip is somewhat new (ATI Southern > Islands, integrated in the CPU). > Installing the non-free package firmware-radeon managed to work around this. > > Most stuff worked at that point. As I had forgotten to select KDE during the > install, I originally had both GNOME and KDE installed, which exposed > #692982. After working around that > one, the only problem left was another - more minor - sound problem with > non-KDE applications. speaker-test would fail and the Adobe Flash Player > plugin in Iceweasel wouldn't output any > sound. Unloading the snd_hda_intel LKM and [re]loading it with a parameter > (modprobe snd_hda_intel index=1,0) worked around that. After I knew that > sufficed, I made the workaround > permanent by creating an asound.conf file.
Apart from some glitches (notably non-free firmware for Ethernet and graphics) the installation was successful. So closing this bug Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
