GNU bug report logs - #44301
Black screen in Guix System installation

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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

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