Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> OK, so that’s suboptimal, but do you still consider it usable >> nonetheless? >> > > Yes, the installer is usable. Its just when using Manual partitioning > that the message > > You can change a disk's partition table by \ > selecting it and pressing ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecting > it \ > and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \ > partition, select a free space area and press ENTER. > > > is clipped to > > ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecting it \ > and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \ > partition, select a free space area and press ENTER. > > It is not very important. OK, so I’ll push the “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” trick. > The important remaining issue is that Xorg does not start on this > computer. Neither the radeon nor fbdev and not even vesa works, for > whatever reason. fbdev apparently is not supported. VESA might be a > fixable bug (it displays “(EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect” like > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-vesa/+bug/1432899>). > On other AMD GPUs the results may be more successful. I have not > tried other free distributions on this PC yet. So basically GNU/Linux distros in general fail to work on machines with these GPUs? > I believe issues with (some?) AMD GPUs should be mentioned in the > manual. Also, on the downloads page perhaps it should be mentioned > that there may be issues with some hardware, referring users to the > Hardware Considerations in the Guix manual. We could do that, but these kind of kernel-side issues tend to appear and vanish quickly, no? But I don’t know much about these AMD GPU issues, so I’m happy to do what people consider appropriate. Thanks, Ludo’.
