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Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

From Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software
Date 2021-01-22 16:10 +0100
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:39:45 -0500
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

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> The AMD cards probably don't function without a firmware blob,
> even with otherwise open-source drivers. 

Depends what you mean by "function" :) IIRC, my system with an RX-570
would boot to console without the firmware packages installed, but X
wouldn't start. I didn't experiment too much further to see how much
functionality the card provided without its firmware.

Celejar

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Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 06:30 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2021-01-22 08:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 19:20 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 10:00 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 16:10 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-23 04:50 +0100
      Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-23 07:00 +0100

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