On Mon 03 Dec 2012 at 14:31:24 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
As I answered before, at no time did the installer ask me or offer me
to install any firmware at all, even though my radeon display controller
will not work at all with the installed kernel without firmware.
I found
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
A minimal patch to the Guide is at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695403
Thanks Brian, this looks very helpful.
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On Sat 01 Dec 2012 at 12:56:08 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
I understand why the modules are non-free, and why they won't be installed
automatically any more. But firmware for video cards is still the
installer's business, and probably is installed automatically still,
if it is found in the
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
I've tried to read
http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s02.html
and
http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html
from a new user's perspective. There is nothing there, as far as I can
see, which says only missing firmware for network
Em 01-12-2012 07:23, Christian PERRIER escreveu:
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):
Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those
listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied
somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to
On Fri 30 Nov 2012 at 21:25:53 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
Didn't the installer ask for RV610_pfp.bin to be supplied?
No, never. It looks like the installer itself always runs the card in
some kind of framebuffer mode which worked throughout without
On Sat 01 Dec 2012 at 08:23:20 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):
Didn't the installer ask for RV610_pfp.bin to be supplied?
Logically, no. Firmware for video cards is none of the installer's
business. Of coure, from the user point of view,
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):
Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those
listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied
somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to the
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64.netinst
Date: Nov 28, 2012, 01:00 UTC
Machine: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 755
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Partitions:
root@ivanovad:/var/log# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Lou Poppler wrote:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1]
Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
[ ... ]
Various online research brings me to
On Fri 30 Nov 2012 at 16:52:20 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Lou Poppler wrote:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices
[AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1]
Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02]
Kernel driver in use:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
[AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1]
Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
[ ... ]
http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
which looks like I should install some non-free firmware for this card.
I find
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):
Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those
listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied
somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to the wiki page ?
Didn't the installer ask for
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