Hugo Buddelmeijer <h...@buddelmeijer.nl> writes:
> The i915 driver will try to load the GuC firmware, at least for Iris > Xe chips. Loading the GuC firmware fails because it is non-free and > deblobbed. As a result, some software, like sway, will not work. > > It is possible to manually pass the i915.enable_guc=0 kernel parameter > at boot from grub. Then everything works as intended. However, it > seems not possible to set this parameter from config.scm. > > So at the moment my system is not fully declarative, as I have to type > in a kernel parameter at boot; does anyone perhaps have advice on how > can this be done better? > ... You can use the kernel-arguments option in the operating-system config. Untested: (kernel-arguments (cons "i915.enable_guc=0" %default-kernel-arguments)) This should work, in theory. I suspect that the sysctl thing doesn't work because it is done too late in the boot process.
