bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-10 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello, On 2020-05-06 20:53, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: [...] Maybe that's premature and we could use etc-service-type in the mean time. However, if a kernel-module-configuration-service appeared later then users would have to migrate to it manually. Not great. > kernel-module-configuration

bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Wed, 6 May 2020 10:19:05 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > (but the video resolution should be adjusted, probably something higher than > 1024x768 is supported by the system). > We could add a uvesafb-service-type to its own gnu/services/….scm. > Autodetection of the best usab

bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Wed, 06 May 2020 08:56:48 +0200 Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Should we propose the installation of uvesafb service in the > installation? Or detect that it is currently used and force its install? Since we don't have a previous generation to go back to, I'd prefer the first generation to be

bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:56:48AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Should we propose the installation of uvesafb service in the > installation? Or detect that it is currently used and force its install? > > Florian, WDYT? Yes, IMHO there should be a uvesafb-service-type. Copying the uvesafb ser

bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-05 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, Thanks for reporting! It has been discussed on IRC, and booting the same machine with integrated graphics works. While uvesafb allows us to get framebuffer support in the installer, the installed system will blackscreen or fail to boot with those AMD GPUs. Should we propose the installa

bug#41082: nomodeset

2020-05-05 Thread Ryan Osborne
nomodest allows the system to boot, but when it boots the framebuffer and X don't seem to work. [0.00] Linux version 5.4.38-gnu (nixbld@) (gcc version 7.4.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP 1 [0.00] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/gnu/store/kygqk99rl8g66j9z125gnx4cyp7m9a5v-linux-libre-5.4.38/bzImage --