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From: Niels Felsted <niels@pdlkrft.eu>
Subject: bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:20:09 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludovic

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <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:
>>>=20
>>> setting 'nomodeset' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine
>>>=20
>>> setting 'modprobe.blacklist=3Di915' kernel parameter -> screen displays=
 fine
>>>=20
>>> 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=E2=80=99s a new ISO image built from commit
> bd4c345ef7ddf3542662fe0872b06393b414a3fc, which includes Florian=E2=80=99=
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=E2=80=99t need to run the actual install.)

1.1.0rc2.5 works fine here!

br
Niels