From: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Getting Guix System to use llvmpipe
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:52:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0c24af4-c072-5ddd-9b54-2fdee36a7338@philipmcgrath.com> (raw)
Hi folks,
I'm trying to install Guix System on real hardware for the first time,
and I'm having some graphics trouble.
The machine has an older Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 motherboard with an onboard
Radeon HD 3000 GPU---the R600 family, IIUC, so covered by the `radeon`
driver rather than `amdgpu`. I understand that functionality will be
limited since I'm not using nonfree firmware, and I can live with that.
I've tried Debian 11 on this board (without "nonfree"), and, after
noting the missing firmware, it falls back to work acceptably with
`llvmpipe`.
Unfortunately, Guix System is working less well. When it starts the
display manager (I've tried both GDM and SDDM, with both X11 and
Wayland), the screen goes blank permanently, and the logs show that
starting the X server fails: initially with an error about an undefined
symbol `exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate`, though through various incantations
on the kernel command line or in the X configuration I can produce other
errors, like "X: ../include/privates.h:121: dixGetPrivateAddr: Assertion
`key->initialized' failed."
Can I configure Guix to give up on the missing firmware and just use
`llvmpipe`, as Debian does?
Or, of course, if there's something even better I should do, I'd be glad
to hear about that!
Thanks,
Philip
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2021-10-12 20:09 ` Getting Guix System to use llvmpipe raingloom
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