Hi Cyril, On 24-07-2021 09:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > @RT: I'd be happy to have some feedback from your regarding this > approach; telling people to enable contrib/non-free so that they > can install firmware packages is definitely *not* something I take > lightly, but I'd be happy to have some kind of review there to see > if that looks reasonable at all. I'm not sure there are many > options these days anyway… It's only my opinion, but as it's my understanding too that a lot of hardware just doesn't work great without the contrib/non-free drivers, I think it's sensible to help users with instructions on how to get those. You're not installing them and you're not enabling contrib/non-free, so decent warnings can be given (spirit of free software vs hardware that works well). I understand it's hard to get, but having the confirmation that `nomodeset` actually works for the (or most) black screen issues would obviously be great. Side note: apart from the installation guide, do we think that this warrants a note in the release notes too? > @RT: This would be my preferred approach, and based on cdbuilder coming > back up, plus my recent verifications in a d-i context, I think > this should be manageable in time for the announced release date. > Ideally we would be able to release an RC3 a week from now, letting > us fix any boo-boo in time before mid-August. I assume your ugly backup plan is (near) ready (or really trivial), so can be dropped in at the last moment in case there's set backs? > Thanks for your attention! I've had plenty on my mind, and some > braindump was in order. Sorry it's been *that* long a read. I even read in more than once to get the details right. Paul
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