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Bug#825916: marked as done (installation-reports: Installing Debian with AMD/ATI Radeon graphics card does not go well)

Your message dated Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:09:59 +0200
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and subject line Closing bugreports related to missing/not installed firmware
has caused the Debian Bug report #825916,
regarding installation-reports: Installing Debian with AMD/ATI Radeon graphics card does not go well
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports
Severity: important

When i install Debian on computer with AMD/ATI Radeon graphics card it does no
go well.

After installation there is problem booting into the graphical desktop (GNOME)
because it needs firmware-linux-nonfree and other packages to it seems.

This is a big problem for a new user that wants to try Debian for the first
time and have no idea why the system cant start the graphical desktop and what
commands to type.

I would at least expect to be able to start the desktop into some low
resolution mode like in Windows where you can get into the desktop even though
you dont have the correct driver.

Then maybe the user is able to find information on the web/IRC to fix the
problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Hi,

since we have some kind of a next-generation installer, when it comes to
installation of (non-free) firmware, I'm closing all related old bugreports.

They have been helpful at the time, when they were filed, however now we have
a completely new situation / mechanism in place for this, so let's make a cut
now and close such bugs, and let people file new ones with recent installer
versions, if they still experience problems.


Thanks to all reporters!

Holger


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