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Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:47:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> OK, so that’s suboptimal, but do you still consider it usable
>> nonetheless?
>>
>
> Yes, the installer is usable. Its just when using Manual partitioning
> that the message
>
> You can change a disk's partition table by \
> selecting it and pressing ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecting
> it \
> and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \
> partition, select a free space area and press ENTER.
>
>
> is clipped to
>
> ENTER. You can also edit a partition by selecting it \
> and pressing ENTER, or remove it by pressing DELETE. To create a new \
> partition, select a free space area and press ENTER.
>
> It is not very important.
OK, so I’ll push the “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” trick.
> The important remaining issue is that Xorg does not start on this
> computer. Neither the radeon nor fbdev and not even vesa works, for
> whatever reason. fbdev apparently is not supported. VESA might be a
> fixable bug (it displays “(EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect” like
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-vesa/+bug/1432899>).
> On other AMD GPUs the results may be more successful. I have not
> tried other free distributions on this PC yet.
So basically GNU/Linux distros in general fail to work on machines with
these GPUs?
> I believe issues with (some?) AMD GPUs should be mentioned in the
> manual. Also, on the downloads page perhaps it should be mentioned
> that there may be issues with some hardware, referring users to the
> Hardware Considerations in the Guix manual.
We could do that, but these kind of kernel-side issues tend to appear
and vanish quickly, no? But I don’t know much about these AMD GPU
issues, so I’m happy to do what people consider appropriate.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, (continued)
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/14
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/15
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/17
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/18
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/19
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/18
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/19
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/19
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/19
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Félicien Pillot, 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/04/20
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/21
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/04/22
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/22
- Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/22