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Black screen in Guix System installation

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From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: Bug Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 07:03:30 +0100 (CET)

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I have this problem to install Guix System:

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After this, the screen turns black and nothing is displayed.


I first downloaded the Guix System, extracted the iso with this command: "unxz" and then burned it to a 4.7GB DVD-R with "Brasero". I did not sign the downloaded file from the beginning

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org, 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:22:09 +0100

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Good morning,

soheilkhanalipur--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道：
> After this, the screen turns black and nothing is displayed.


This sounds similar to <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/44257>.  Do you 
have an ATI video card?  They are known for problematic hardware.

Please try the two work-arounds suggested there: adding ‘radeon’ 
to the GRUB kernel command line, or burning the ‘latest’ ISO if 
that doesn't help.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Comment
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:52:59 +0100 (CET)

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Thanks, yes it is related, I was able to install the system by putting "nomodeset" in grub.
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With this problem: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43985
Which is probably related to GDM or graphics, I was able to log in with the root user. I then updated the system with the "guix pull" and "guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm" commands. To apply the updates, I rebooted the system and then I now have this problem:
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My graphics card: NVIDIA GT720

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Message #17 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:13:04 +0100 (CET)

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Thanks, yes it is related, I was able to install the system by putting "nomodeset" in grub.
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With this problem: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43985
Which is probably related to GDM or graphics, I was able to log in with the root user. I then updated the system with the "guix pull" and "guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm" commands. To apply the updates, I rebooted the system and then I now have this problem:
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My graphics card: NVIDIA GT720

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Message #20 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Douglas Linford <drkrider <at> gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: "soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com"
 <soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com>,
 "44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:23:56 -0400

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Tobias,
I have tried both of those options, new current image and appending radeon on the kernel load line, but to no avail.
It never reaches login on tty1, but I can switch to tty2 and update guix and run commands.
The graphics card I have is an AMD/ATI Radeon HD 7800
Can the nouveau driver be installed and then tweak the X config file to use and load the nouveau, (if that is the one I need),driver?

Douglas
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On Oct 29 2020, at 3:22 am, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> soheilkhanalipur--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道：
> > After this, the screen turns black and nothing is displayed.
>
>
> This sounds similar to <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/44257>. Do you
> have an ATI video card? They are known for problematic hardware.
>
> Please try the two work-arounds suggested there: adding ‘radeon’
> to the GRUB kernel command line, or burning the ‘latest’ ISO if
> that doesn't help.
>
> Kind regards,
> T G-R

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Message #23 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:18:30 +0100 (CET)

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New system configuration order:
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Message #26 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:22:58 +0100 (CET)

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Guix has some incompatibilities like (issues.guix.gnu.org/43985) with my computer.
What are these? what's the solution?

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Message #29 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
Cc: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:05:39 +0100

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:22:58PM +0100, soheilkhanalipur--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Guix has some incompatibilities like (issues.guix.gnu.org/43985) with my computer.
> What are these? what's the solution?

Your issues are post-install, I think, so the installer worked
properly, so Guix basically works.  However:

Possibly you will not get a good experience because (if I understand
it correctly) Linux-libre might have various incompatibilities because
it is deliberately lacking non-free firmware.

You might work around the graphics issues by using nomodeset or
blacklisting nouveau and then using uvesafb like
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-04/msg00320.html>.
I’m not sure if all that is really necessary.

Your 7.jpg shows this message:

[  18.727379] usb 1-1.3: Fatal – failed to load firmware

This may be because Linux-libre

Message #32 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: Douglas Linford <drkrider <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 07:47:22 +0100

I do not know if you deliberately did not reply to all.  I hope you do
not mind me quoting you.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 04:16:11PM -0400, Douglas Linford wrote:
> Is recompiling the kernel to include radeon an option?
> Meaning, can I recompile the kernel myself?
> 
> Douglas

Guix will not provide support for that, but there is a Guix channel
where others are doing that.  (I cannot link to it and of course it is
a trade-off because parts of Linux (instead of Linux-libre) are
nonfree.)  The uvesafb solution I linked to in my last mail is an
alternative that I use for one old laptop of mine that does not make
much use of your GPU and is therefore slower and may or may not be
more power-hungry, I don’t know.

soheilkhanalipur reported problems with an Nvidia GPU.  I had not seen
that before, maybe the above also helps.  I do not know if
soheilkhanalipur’s USB issues are still problematic.

(Sorry I accidently sent out a draft e-mail before, but it was mostly
complete.)

Regards,
Florian

Message #35 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:44:39 +0100 (CET)

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Does this mean I have non-free firmware?
I put "modprobe.blacklist=i915" in grub, but the problem is not resolved.
I am confused! Is there no solution?

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Message #38 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Malte Gerdes <malte.f.gerdes <at> gmail.com>
To: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
Cc: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 16:26:09 +0100

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Do you have another Linux Live Distro at hand to check what the device at
USB 1-1.3 actually is? This might help.


Malte

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, 14:06 soheilkhanalipur--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix,
<bug-guix <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Does this mean I have non-free firmware?
> I put "modprobe.blacklist=i915" in grub, but the problem is not resolved.
> I am confused! Is there no solution?
>

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Message #41 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:57:50 +0100 (CET)

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Thanks, I check it...

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Message #44 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:11:05 +0100 (CET)

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In https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44301#2 Attachment 1, what is radeon?

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Message #47 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:36:56 +0100 (CET)

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In "https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44301#2", Attachment 1, what is radeon?

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Message #50 received at 44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301 <44301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Black screen in Guix System installation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 19:09:45 +0100 (CET)

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The problem was solved!
This time, during the installation process, I put the language, keyboard and all the names in English, and I was able to log in with my user (not the root) and update it. I hope this problem is solved soon. Yes, as I thought, this is related to issues.guix.gnu.org/43985 <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/43985>

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Message #55 received at 44301-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: soheilkhanalipur <at> tutanota.com
To: 44301-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Done
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 19:25:00 +0100 (CET)

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done

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