On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 07:56:46AM -0500, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 03:59 Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Am 2. Januar 2022 02:40:16 MEZ schrieb "David J. Ring, Jr." <n...@arrl.net > > >: > > > > > >lspci -knn: 00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U > > Audio Controller [8086:160c] (rev 09) > > > > > > As I already wrote: > > my best guess for this one would be > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata > > > > > > Holger > > > > > > -- > > Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3 > > > > Holger, > > So is this fixed? Does the daily our weekly installer with firmware allow > speech to be heard during installation? > > Thank you, > David > > >
Hi David, No: it's one of the annoyances at the moment that there are three areas where firmware is increasingly required - and they vary from machine to machine. It has got to the stage where the stock installer - without firmware - is, effectively, unusable to install over WiFi with most chipsets, for example. Various video chipsets now require firmware from the outset: some of them may, exceptionally, drop back to a VESA-compliant mode so that you could do a text mode install - but will give you a black screen thereafter. We have the situation - which may be yours - where some Intel chipsets now require dedicated firmware for sound to work. All rather frustrating: there is talk of a GR [General Resolution] on firmware to be put to the Debian developers once the current round of voting is over because the position that we've held for many years on firmware and non-freeness is now actively detrimental to the success of Debian installs. Other distributions may vary: Ubuntu has a different outlook and more liberal policy and Fedora - which is equally concerned with software freedom - has a very clear policy set out here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware Hope this helps, all the very best, as ever. Andy Cater
