Bug 1061

Summary:	add non free kernel modules in liveCD
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Philippe Didier <philippedidier>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	djmarian4u, marja11, pterjan, watersnowrock
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Philippe Didier 2011-04-29 18:59:29 CEST

Description of problem:

Mandriva LiveCD provided non-free modules for graphics cards and wifi cards
those cards were detected and the "drivers" installed, working fine.

Fedora provides no non-free module on its LiveCD but we can install them and use them after X restart (a little tricky but doable : adding repos, downloading and adding some rpms, )

Mageia LiveCD doesn't provide non-free drivers but with the MCC we can have the option to use proprietary module built for a graphic card ; but we can't use them... (for instance nvidia-current module is correctly built bad cannot be installed when XFdrake try to use it)

It would be nice to provide the non-free modules (and to allow their automatical use) on the liveCD


Nevertheless this LiveCD works very well on my computer (except for Amarok not reading mp3... that was an other little bug easy to correct)

CM ASUS M2N-SLI
CG nVidia GeForce 210
Audio SoundBlaster Live! (pulseaudio is not perfect but...)
1 HDD SATA
1 HDD IDE
1 DVD reader IDE
1 DVD Writer IDE
1 External USB DD (NTFS)

Ahmad Samir 2011-04-29 19:31:31 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Severity: minor => enhancement

Comment 1 Pascal Terjan 2011-04-29 19:42:22 CEST

I am against providing non free software on the live cd but maybe other people don't agree...

I think you should be able to install them like in fedora

CC: (none) => pterjan

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-29 19:44:14 CEST

FWIW, switching from nouveau <-> nvidia proprietary requires a reboot to be safely done, as nouveau has a kernel module.

Comment 3 Donald 2011-04-29 20:02:44 CEST

Graphics drivers as high ranking a the wifi cards if you ask me. 
Although wifi is easier to install than graphics, it is still a huge pain. Fedora have at least the intel cards ootb, so maybe something similar here would be good. As i recall Ubuntu and a few others do aswell.

CC: (none) => watersnowrock

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-11 22:32:11 CEST

ping?

CC: (none) => marja11

Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-20 01:05:36 CET

Source RPM: (none) => draklive-installer

Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-05 19:43:48 CET

Source RPM: draklive-installer => (none)

Dan Joita 2012-03-07 11:17:44 CET

CC: (none) => djmarian4u
Summary: Add non free kernel modules in liveCD => add non free kernel modules in liveCD

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-07 22:53:20 CEST

since we have can build the module of the kernel (like dkms) this is fixed. (and these rpms are in the livecd (pre-beta3)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED