On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Sebastian Beßler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 11.12.2009 21:06, schrieb Duncan: >> >> You found the solution and posted it yourself before I could get to >> it! =:^) > > Most of the time it is for me: > Search and try to solve it alone for hours, give up, post here, search > and try again, find the solution. > It is like a curse ;-) > >> I don't personally run an initramfs/initrd, so I can't say whether >> putting the radeon firmware there would work or not > > I never used a initramfs/initrd before and do my best to never have to > use one. Mostly because it is to much work and I don't know how to build > one to beginn with. > But putting it in one should work, as far as I read.
Setting the option FIRMWARE="yes" in genkernel.conf will automatically copy the firmware from /lib/firmware to your initrd. FWIW, creating an initrd is as difficult as typing 'genkernel initramfs' and using the correct grub parameters. You don't even need a new one for every kernel, depending on whats changed. Wil
