Re: Bug#991430: installation-reports: Successful install; failed to detect need for firmware for sound card
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote (Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:21:19 +0200):
> > Install worked great - both graphical and textual (I tried both). My
> > only real quibble is that the sound card in this laptop requires
> > non-free firmware to work (!), which is in the firmware-sof-signed
> > package. Given I was using a with-nonfree-firmware installer, it would
> > have been nice if this had been flagged by the installer and/or
> > installed for me :)
>
> Thanks for your installation report. You're absolutely right about the
> missing firmware, that's known (#989863) and being currently worked on,
> even if I haven't posted a progress report just yet.
This has been worked on, and it should be fixed - to the best of our
knowledge.
Bullseye has a massively improved mechanism to detect and install
non-free firmware, so I guess your issue is solved now.
Thus closing this bug
Holger
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