From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:11:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20190403051132.rbbuoumyvoqzyatm@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <87h8bl8xrb.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <875zs1k5ac.fsf@gmail.com> <20190329180022.pqzdrzcjrbm3z5ub@pelzflorian.localdomain> <871s2o6cyt.fsf@gmail.com> <87imw0u558.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <20190330152211.2ugzdbvp2hjy3lvl@pelzflorian.localdomain> <871s2lkesq.fsf@gmail.com> <87a7h9jxzd.fsf@gnu.org> <87y34sj122.fsf@gmail.com> <20190402183102.3d951dc2@scratchpost.org> 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]:34622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBYBV-0003e2-Dz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 01:11:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBYBT-0002ZP-JJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 01:11:36 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.de ([5.45.111.108]:50984 helo=mail.pelzflorian.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBYBS-0002XL-KD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 01:11:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190402183102.3d951dc2@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: Guix-devel , Mathieu Othacehe On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:31:40PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Mathieu, >=20 > I would prefer if we just passed "nomodeset" to the Linux kernel in the= installer image (in the installer image only) in order to disable all th= ose funny drivers in the first place. >=20 > Then, grub would use vesa in order to initialize graphics - which shoul= d have seen testing for... forever... years. >=20 > We could use "set gfxmode=3D..." in grub in order to set a specific gra= phics mode. >=20 > (The Linux kernel module is called uvesafb--but it should be picked up = automatically) >=20 > (Use "vbeinfo" in the grub prompt in order to find out whether it's usi= ng VESA) >=20 > I don't think it's wise to complicate bootup when we could just use ves= a. There's nothing wrong with it as far as I know... Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese language during install, would it not? Currently there is no support because =C2=B7 the Chinese and Japanese locales are not added to the installer, i= t only includes glibc-utf8-locales, =C2=B7 there is no translated PO file for the installer yet anyway, but otherwise it would work, would it not? However, this means in particular that =C2=B7 when using KMScon, the installer should change the locale that get= s used once it is selected, =C2=B7 when using mingetty, the locale should only be changed for languag= es other than Chinese and Japanese, =C2=B7 the console font should be changed to match the locale similar to console-setup on Debian. Maybe some of this is already supported, I don=E2=80=99t know. Regards, Florian