Hi, Not that I have any solution (sorry...) but a similar blackout happened when I removed the regular linux kernel (using nonguix channel) and tried the native Libre kernel for Guix, some months ago. I immediately went back to the original Linux...
My PC has both Ryzen CPU and AMD video card. Cheers, Yasu > On Nov 24, 2020, at 11:32, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > > I am kind of shooting from the hip here, others may be more knowledgeable > than me, but here is my two cents. > > As a general rule, any "brand new hardware" (except server grade hardware and > Intel hardware) generally needs 3-6+ months before it has good Linux support. > So you may run into issues using the latest and greatest thing. > > If you want a good GPU, then you might check out this: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-K2020-Low-End-Card > It's a $50 graphics card that works with the libre nvidia driver > (nouveau). I think you have to manually set the clock frequency though...All > AMD graphics cards are virtually useless on the Linux libre kernel. AMD has > proprietary firmware, which Linux libre disables. Nvidia is as bad. I think > the integrated graphics from Intel works fairly well with Linux libre. > > I've also run into that booting issue. I think there is a way to disable > fancy graphics rendering during the installer, which is what I had to do, to > get guix to run on my AMD APU a few years ago. Maybe someone here can point > out how to do that, because I'm blanking on the specifics. > > If you are trying to game on Linux libre, you will probably run into some > issues. :( > > November 23, 2020 4:38 PM, "Jesse Gibbons" <jgibbons2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi guix, >> I built a guix image for a hardware enthusiast friend to try on his >> computers, in part to see how >> well/completely his more modern hardware would run guix and if it would be >> worth commissioning him >> to build me a computer. It successfully booted, but the screens turned blank >> and didn't show gdm. >> My friend tried this twice, and the same thing happened. He tried >> ctrl+alt+f{1..6} and didn't see >> anything (though he has a weird keyboard that requires him to hold a >> modifier key to enter any >> function key). He suggested it might be because his computer has a Ryzen CPU >> with the Zen 2 >> Architecture, which he knows might need to work around. Since it booted >> fine, I think it might be >> more related to his Nvidia GPU. Is there anything I can do, without >> resorting to proprietary >> solutions, to make a guix image with a desktop at least displays with his >> hardware? >> -Jesse >
