Upgraded to Lubuntu 14.04.1 using the Alternate Installer downloaded from the Lubuntu Wiki, only to find no graphics apps available, I am assuming due to the following that appears in dmesg every boot:
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[ 30.648449] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin"
[ 30.648469] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[ 30.648480] radeon 0000:01:05.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[ 30.648485] radeon 0000:01:05.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[ 30.648495] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 30.648601] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
Found out about the new location of the firmware-linux-nonfree package, but installing that did not fix the issue (it does not appear to contain any ATI specific firmware..
during this whole process, discovered some 'basic' packages like 'man' & 'wget' were not present in the base system installed using the Alternate installer,..
SO.. at this point, I am wondering... could something have failed with the alternate installer process ? Does anyone here have experience of installation of ATI/Radeon graphics drivers ??
thanks,
Charlie.