From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: Status update on 1.0 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:00:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87ef7au5l4.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> References: <871s3a4xd4.fsf@gnu.org> <87y35i4woe.fsf@nckx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51245) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h46KN-0004Vl-UA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:02:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h46JP-0002IX-Qr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:01:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87y35i4woe.fsf@nckx> 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: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: Guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > The last time I tried the installer it didn't work on AMD(GPU) cards. I'= ll give > it another go. I've experienced the same issue and I'm quite sure this is because the inst= aller uses KMSCON which only works with the proprietary amdgpu kernel module. Du= ring FOSDEM, Mathieu mentioned that KMSCON was chosen because it works better wi= th text/input encoding, if I recall correctly. The solution would be to fallb= ack on something else with lesser encoding support, which is still better than a black screen :p =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlyJKTcACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH8xOQf+PUnkFSRKXF6GaCrTug8a+8IM4pmJ/oiOhPnr5YvSZmfeTB+0qJ7Tng1t BdQPESzIgYYmTfky9h9Oo/tAY+JHmFFAxxllDJW7C0ZxDHYNkgNbWxFQ6/gJN6I8 pGxwtlcul1FcASLxSPblokMPfWzZtKonX41Koz6FJ4J9feEbStSbUPcukKD8NxPk fdQWx8hamcezcVcS6vZU8Klv0uI3vWGKyI5cY1OBeXksCVNvVNaZPPDH32tRL2iW dqWInZiT3ArsPKYgTqxW3vFXeoqT4lz+Bh6VOSgQEd8JBganyR8MwB4tNt6CtMmF o8S4yUssrIYLf+W0G/uQe03Kw1feLw== =RsfO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--