Installer has also a bug report about this (#661069). It would be good if Debian kernel radeon driver learned to fall back sensibly if running on hardware where firmware is required.
Also installer should warn user about what happens if firmware is missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120423182150.GA8524@tiikeri.vuoristo.local