From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:48:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20200413214824.4xcb5e7yvzdymru2@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <871rorxzpw.fsf@ficus.lan> <20200413210650.uwuswmbv2tqpqp56@pelzflorian.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jO6wx-0004tV-Bs for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:49:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jO6ww-0005gM-CU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:49:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jO6wv-0005gG-Vn for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:49:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jO6wv-0004dq-SZ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:49:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200413210650.uwuswmbv2tqpqp56@pelzflorian.localdomain> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Niels Felsted Cc: 40599@debbugs.gnu.org On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:06:50PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 04:02:00PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: > > The laptop is a Acer aspire 3680, with Intel Celeron cpu, 1.5gb ram > > and the following graphics card: > > Wait it’s Intel?? Sorry I misread. I thought I had read AMD. It’s funny how my Acer Aspire 5738PG has an old AMD/ATI Radeon and only works with uvesafb, while uvesafb causes problems with your Acer Aspire 3680’S old Intel GPU. I believe “nomodeset” will help you with rc2, although it is a regression. If you run lsmod after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, is there a module called “i915”? You could try adding a kernel parameter “modprobe.blacklist=i915” and maybe it won’t break the graphics. Have you previously used a GNU/Linux distribution with Xorg on the Acer Aspire (probably yes)? However could you try if after installing you even have Xorg graphics support? If and only if you don’t have Xorg after installation, maybe you might actually need to add uvesafb to your config.scm to have graphics support later on. That is in your /etc/config.scm in the services field add: (services (set-xorg-configuration (xorg-configuration (modules (list ;it is important xf86-video-vesa is not listed xf86-video-fbdev xf86-input-libinput ;; you probably don’t need these: xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-synaptics)) (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))) (service kernel-module-loader-service-type '("uvesafb")) (simple-service 'uvesafb-configuration etc-service-type (list `("modprobe.d/uvesafb.conf" ,(mixed-text-file "uvesafb.conf" "options uvesafb v86d=" v86d "/sbin/v86d mode_option=1024x768\n"))))) and before (services …) a field (kernel-arguments '("nomodeset")) Regards, Florian