[13:36] <nibbon_> o/
[13:37] <nibbon_> is it necessary to install the package linux-firmware?
[13:37] <juergh> nibbon_, only if you have HW that needs loadable FW.
[13:38] <nibbon_> juergh fair point, is there a way to identify such hardware?
[13:42] <ogra> uninstall linux-firmware and see what breaks ? 🙂
[13:43] <ogra> (keep a local copy of the deb in case what breaks is your network card 🙂 )
[13:44] <juergh> nibbon_, dmesg should tell you if a driver fails to load fw. Or something like: lsmod | awk '{print $1}' | xargs modinfo | grep ^firmware
[13:49] <nibbon_> juergh that commands return a .bin which isn't present in neither /lib/firmware nor /usr/lib/firmware so I think is related to something else...
[13:58] <juergh> nibbon_, what are the kernel and linux-firmware versions? what .bin is missing?
[13:59] <nibbon_> juergh linux-firmware (1.187.12) - 5.4.0-73-generic - ast_dp501_fw.bin
[14:11] <juergh> nibbon_, hmm. that seems to be a blob for an (old?) graphics card. is that missing blob causing issues?
[14:11] <nibbon_> juergh nope, everything seems to be alright
[14:12] <juergh> nibbon_, OK. fwiw: LP: #1751613
[14:12] <juergh> oh no bots yet... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1751613
[14:15] <ogra> juergh, ask in #ubuntu-irc ... the irc council has bug bots and all to hook in here
[14:21] <nibbon_> juergh thx, so smt I can safely ignore :)