On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 12:34 +0200, scootergrisen wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: important > > When i install Debian on computer with AMD/ATI Radeon graphics card it does no > go well. > > After installation there is problem booting into the graphical desktop (GNOME) > because it needs firmware-linux-nonfree and other packages to it seems. > > This is a big problem for a new user that wants to try Debian for the first > time and have no idea why the system cant start the graphical desktop and what > commands to type. > > I would at least expect to be able to start the desktop into some low > resolution mode like in Windows where you can get into the desktop even though > you dont have the correct driver.
Yes, something should load a generic framebuffer driver if necessary. I don't know what that would be though. - I don't think it can be the kernel, as the kernel doesn't take that sort of policy decision - It can't be the X or Wayland server, because they don't run as root - I don't think it should be the display manager, because we have multiple implementations of that (gdm3, kdm, lightdm, ...) Maybe a systemd unit/init script provided by an X/WL base package? The other question is what the generic framebuffer driver would be, on x86. I just tried vga16fb, and gdm3 doesn't work on that - it seems to be repeatedly starting an X server that quickly crashes. efifb is presumably preferable on UEFI systems. uvesafb is another option but requires a userland helper. Ben. > Then maybe the user is able to find information on the web/IRC to fix the > problem. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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