On 25/12/12 22:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
R.M. Thomas<rmthomas@sciolus.org> (25/12/2012):(2) there was no usable command-line prompt on the first reboot, because the firmware required for the Radeon card was not present and the X-server did not release me from the garbled GUI.Ben fixed that by disabling KMS when no radeon firmware is around, meaning you get a fallback video driver now (starting with the pending rc1 image, thanks to an updated linux kernel).
In that case, I think the situation is satisfactory. If I had been able to access a console window on the first reboot I would immediately have checked that I had video acceleration, and if not I would have manually installed the necessary driver and/or firmware. I probably would not have installed the package firmware-realtek, because I would not have noticed any degraded performance of the network card and would have ignored the syslog message. But I guess that is not very serious (unless there are security issues involved). Mike