From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:39:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87r28848q1.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYTKu-0008Et-Li for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:40:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYTKt-0008IE-68 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:40:04 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYTKr-0008HI-UI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:40:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hYTKr-0002Pe-Ns for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:40:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: (Robert Vollmert's message of "Mon, 3 Jun 2019 11:35:17 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Robert Vollmert Cc: 36069@debbugs.gnu.org Hello, Robert Vollmert skribis: > There seems to be some conflict between the =E2=80=9Cgraphical=E2=80=9D i= nstaller=E2=80=99s idea > of the console size and VNC=E2=80=99s (which appears to be noVNC > https://novnc.com/info.html). As you can see in the attached screenshot, > the screen is cropped on all sides, particularly making the menu choices > unviewable. > > Not sure if relevant, but the console goes through a successful mode swit= ch > earlier in the booting process, where the VNC display size changes. Seems > like that should happen again when the menus start, but it doesn=E2=80=99= t. > > I=E2=80=99ve run other installers through noVNC successfully so there=E2= =80=99s a good > chance this is a Guix issue, can=E2=80=99t say for sure though. I=E2=80=99ve never used noVNC, but doesn=E2=80=99t it allow you to zoom out= or something? The kernel (KMS) knows what it=E2=80=99s doing, so it seems to = me that the problem is that noVNC doesn=E2=80=99t realize what the actual scre= en size is. Does the Internet have something to say wrt. noVNC vs. kmscon? BTW, for your VPS, wouldn=E2=80=99t it be easier to bypass the installation altogether? That is, you write a config that you want to use, you create a QCOW2 image or whatever is suitable for your VPS, and you boot that directly. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.