Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> If that’s the best option we have so far, we can do this:
>> 
>
> The patch works fine, but:
>
> The resolution is slightly too small to read all text boxes in the
> installer’s disk partitioning dialog though.  The screen height is
> only about 35 lines.  I don’t know how to fix this, but it is not that
> important.

Do you mean the resolution is too low?  Are there fewer lines that in
the QEMU screenshot below?

> The installer got stuck in a bash prompt at the end (which is probably
> unrelated to AMD).  I exited the bash prompt and got an installer
> dialog message with a button to Reboot, but it did not reboot.

It got stuck after ‘guix system init’ had completed, right?

Were there any hints in /var/log/messages or tty12?

> Then the installed system has no graphics too (graphics freeze at the
> same message
>
> [   51.910992] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA
>
> but I cannot add modprobe.blacklist=radeon because GRUB does not
> recognize my USB keyboard now (in the installer’s GRUB the USB
> keyboard was recognized).

Weird.  What keyboard layout had you selected?

Is it UEFI or “BIOS”?

(Also, I gather dd’ing to a USB key worked this time, right?)

Thanks a lot for testing!

Ludo’.