bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

[Niels Felsted <niels@pdlkrft.eu>]

Hi Ludovic

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Niels & Florian,
>
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote:
>>> And testing Florians suggestions:
>>> 
>>> setting 'nomodeset' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine
>>> 
>>> setting 'modprobe.blacklist=i915' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine
>>> 
>>> As mentioned before, I did manage to install guix via tty3 (without
>>> setting any kernel parameters), and it boots up fine with
>>> gdm3/xfce4. So it is only the initial boot from the install iso that's
>>> distorted.
>>
>> Thank you for the testing!  Xorg working confirms that uvesafb really
>> is the source of the problem.  This is good to know.  I have hope that
>> this issue is fixed by commit 0ad60b2a89d6d387236466e0bcdd61ac489fca37
>> that loads uvesafb only if it cannot already detect a frame buffer
>> device.  I do not have a downloadable image for confirming the fix
>> though.
>
> Niels, here’s a new ISO image built from commit
> bd4c345ef7ddf3542662fe0872b06393b414a3fc, which includes Florian’s fix.
>
>   https://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/1.1.0rc2.5/
>
> Could you simply boot that image, without any additional kernel
> arguments, and confirm that the installer now displays correctly?  (You
> don’t need to run the actual install.)

1.1.0rc2.5 works fine here!

br
Niels