On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 10:03:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In the past, Mathieu, Florian, and others looked at similar issues on > some graphics boards. Perhaps there’s something we can do here to > special-case this hardware? > > Ludo’.
The affected hardware is diverse and I see no pattern. I would favor restarting with mingetty. However, the installer runs but just has no display, so I do not know how to detect it. My Macbook using “NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] (rev a2)” runs the installer just fine. A desktop PC using “NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)” runs it just fine too. Another PC using “Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340]” runs the installer just fine (but not Xorg X). A laptop Acer Aspire 5738 using “Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v]” *fails* with a black screen; manual installation is required (which I have not tested but probably works). Another laptop Uniwill U50SI1 using “Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)” *fails* the same way. Manual install works fine. Note that I cannot boot non-Windows install images (Debian or Guix) on this machine, only via DVD, and Xorg X server only runs using uvesafb with a v86d helper. None of these installers flicker; the screen is black or it runs fine. Regards, Florian
