Bug 4165

Summary:	radeon firmware missing after an upgrade
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herbert Poetzl <herbert>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, liberforce
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel-3.2.1-1.mga2.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3342

Description Herbert Poetzl 2012-01-17 10:47:26 CET

Description of problem:
when updating from Mageia 1 to Cauldron (with a radeon RV670 card), the system ends up like this:
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/MAGEIA/BUGS/mageia2_boot.jpg
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/MAGEIA/BUGS/mageia2_xorg.jpg

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.2.1-1.mga2.src.rpm

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install 3.2.1 kernel
2. reboot system
3.

the problem is the missing firmware files, namely:
 - RV670_pfp.bin
 - RV670_me.bin

they are available as ihex (intel hex format) files in the kernel source, and can be converted to the binary form with objcopy like this:

objcopy -I ihex RV670_me.bin.ihex -O binary RV670_me.bin
objcopy -I ihex RV670_pfp.bin.ihex -O binary RV670_pfp.bin

Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2012-01-17 12:48:48 CET

Try installing kernel-nonfree-firmware from nonfree.

If that works, this is a known issue, and is a WIP.  The install does not enable nonfree at present, so most radeon cards don't work on first boot.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-17 18:14:37 CET

>when updating from Mageia 1 to Cauldron

how ? with dvd ? online media ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Herbert Poetzl 2012-01-18 00:09:23 CET

via network, from a tier1 mirror

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-18 04:17:14 CET

and it's work with the proper firwmare ?

Blocks: (none) => 3342
Summary: radeon firmware missing => radeon firmware missing after an upgrade

Comment 5 Herbert Poetzl 2012-01-18 05:16:17 CET

yup, working fine after installing the firmware from the kernel sources (as described above)

Comment 6 Luis Menina 2012-01-30 15:46:20 CET

I think this is a duplicate of bug #3466, so I'm closing this one. If you think this is different, feel free to reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3466 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => liberforce
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE