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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 58549@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#58549] [PATCH draft] installer: welcome: Warn when uvesafb gets used.
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:40:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lepen5yn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7055c6g.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:39:03 +0200")


Hello Florian,

> +  (when (member "uvesafb" (modules-loaded))
> +    (run-error-page (G_ "\
> +This may be a false alarm, but possibly your graphics hardware does not
> +work well with only free software.  Expect trouble.  If after installation,
> +the system does not boot, perhaps you will need to add nomodeset to the
> +kernel arguments and need to configure the uvesafb kernel module.")
> +                    (G_ "Pre-install warning")))

This seems like a good idea to me. Perhaps we could be a bit more
specific about the "expected troubles". Is it a black screen after Linux
boot on the installed system?

Thanks,

Mathieu




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-15 15:39 [bug#58549] [PATCH draft] installer: welcome: Warn when uvesafb gets used pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-10-15 15:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-10-17  9:40 ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2022-10-24 13:39   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-10-24 14:20     ` Mathieu Othacehe

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