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Subject: kmscon not working on MacBook
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 22:03:26 +0100
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:54:21AM +0000, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
>> I had to test the manual installation method.  The graphical installer d=
oes not work on my macbook.  It just flickers on and then off.  Shortly aft=
er grub boots into the installer, I briefly see a blue screen, then black, =
then blue, then black, etc.  I can switch to a virtual console and proceed =
with the installation that way.  Perhaps, we should try to start the graphi=
cal installer only 5 times.  If it fails, then just produce an error messag=
e and suggest the user switch to another virtual console and try the manual=
 install.
>
> Perhaps one should restart with mingetty-service if kmscon fails (but
> not if installation was restarted by the user).  But I suppose this
> was discussed before and I do not know if kmscon can be unloaded.

Joshua, do you know what graphics card this MacBook has?

In the past, Mathieu, Florian, and others looked at similar issues on
some graphics boards.  Perhaps there=E2=80=99s something we can do here to
special-case this hardware?

Ludo=E2=80=99.