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Bug#660734: d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack



Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> (29/01/2013):
> wouldn't it be possible to automatically add "radeon.modeset=0" to
> the grub boot options, if firmware was requested but couldn't be
> installed?

AFAICT you only know that when booting the installed system, not
during the installation. And it's already too late. With current
kernels, X should start up in fallback mode, which is I think a proper
compromise.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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