On 4 March 2012 08:30, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no idea. I don't know what Debian considers firmware that would be > in those packages. Any Debian gurus on this list?
A quick ddg.gg'ing indicates the "Firmware" is basically a binary blob of code that was previously part of the kernel, but has somewhat recently been ripped out and stuffed in its own file to make licensing clearer. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494009 http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-linux-nonfree I notice here, that the trick to disabling the modeset trick that was possibly starting the kerfuffule is the kernel flags: nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1137099 However, nobody can tell me what "CP" or "PFP" stand for. You might out of interest wish to grep dmesg and find out exactly which firmware libraries you need =) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
