From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20190419171116.htt7gchbb3hporoy@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <87o95mfcer.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8bdkhhs.fsf@gmail.com> <20190404160748.3jr76nocxxith3jz@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20190414094859.dutthslrhr5jjosp@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20190414205456.5ax4ne5e26pcshef@pelzflorian.localdomain> <878swbpizu.fsf@gnu.org> <20190417172627.wvq7ked5pxbl4wri@pelzflorian.localdomain> <875zrbnfzb.fsf@gnu.org> <20190419121703.mdl3b5yckrbynnlh@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87mukmaut0.fsf@gnu.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]:34266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHX2m-0008KC-Q8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:11:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHX2l-0003zW-Kn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:11:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mukmaut0.fsf@gnu.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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel , Mathieu Othacehe , Pierre Neidhardt On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > OK, so that=E2=80=99s suboptimal, but do you still consider it usable > nonetheless? >=20 Yes, the installer is usable. Its just when using Manual partitioning that the message You can change a disk's partition table by \ selecting it and pressing ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecti= ng it \ and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \ partition, select a free space area and press ENTER. is clipped to ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecting it \ and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \ partition, select a free space area and press ENTER. It is not very important. But: > (I=E2=80=99m trying to see if we can simply use the modprobe.blacklist = patch or > if we need to work on a more elaborate solution.) >=20 The important remaining issue is that Xorg does not start on this computer. Neither the radeon nor fbdev and not even vesa works, for whatever reason. fbdev apparently is not supported. VESA might be a fixable bug (it displays =E2=80=9C(EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect=E2=80= =9D like ). On other AMD GPUs the results may be more successful. I have not tried other free distributions on this PC yet. I believe issues with (some?) AMD GPUs should be mentioned in the manual. Also, on the downloads page perhaps it should be mentioned that there may be issues with some hardware, referring users to the Hardware Considerations in the Guix manual. Regards, Florian