Hi, Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> wrote (Sat, 27 Feb 2021 05:39:57 +0000): > Holger Wansing wrote: > > The point is: > > the current installer is unable to detect, if you have a graphics card, > > which > > driver requires nonfree firmware! So, even if you use some of the non-free > > installation images with included firmware packages, the installer - as it > > is > > now - will NOT install firmware for your graphics card. > > In the worst case, the system will then be unable to display anything in X, > > no login screen, nothing. > > What will users assume then, what happened? > > "My system hangs when booting!" or "My system cannot display anything via > > my graphics card. Is the graphics driver broken?" or similar... > > So we could add some extra hint about this in the intro: > > This > may already have been dealt with, but if the installer does not include > non-free firmware packages, or could not detect the need for them, it > may be necessary to fetch them manually at this stage. > > I'm assuming there's no point adding anything about wifi firmware on a > thumbdrive, since that needs to happen *before* the APT setup stage...
I might make sense here, to install wifi firmware at this point, if you are installing from a full CD or DVD image. That installation method does not forcibly require internet access. So the system might be without network access at this step. But I don't want to mention such 'special situations' here, to not make the dialog unnecessarily complicated. This is, however, the reason for the next sentence, where I point out, that users can use the dialog, install ANY packages here. In summary, I have thrown this all together to the attached patch. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
diff --git a/debian/hw-detect.templates b/debian/hw-detect.templates index c413e88e..3a1e4641 100644 --- a/debian/hw-detect.templates +++ b/debian/hw-detect.templates @@ -96,6 +96,29 @@ Type: text # :sl1: _Description: Checking for firmware... +Template: hw-detect/firmware_packages_to_install +Type: string +# :sl2: +Description: Additional/firmware packages to be installed: + Modern devices (like graphics cards or network devices) tend to need firmware + blobs to be loaded onto the device, to be (fully) functional. This may already + have been dealt with, but if the installer does not include non-free firmware + packages, or could not detect the need for them (this may be the case + especially for graphics cards), it may be necessary to fetch them manually at + this stage. + . + If you know your hardware requires this, and you have enabled "non-free" + package sources, you can list firmware packages here to have them installed. + For AMD/ATI graphics cards you might want to install "firmware-amd-graphics"; + for Intel or Nvidia, "firmware-misc-nonfree". + . + Please note, that you can also use this dialog for installation of any other + additional packages you want to have installed, not just firmware. Package + names need to be space-separated. + . + If you don't know what to enter, just leave it blank to not install any + additional packages. + # Temporary template to force old behavior of loading IDE modules by default Template: hw-detect/load-ide Type: boolean
