Just now I tried the installer on an AMD desktop but the graphical installer screen stays black. Same on an AMD laptop. After switching to another TTY, dmesg tells me this:
> [ 11.625264] shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. > [ 11.625839] shepherd[1]: Service user-homes has been started. > [ 11.629846] shepherd[1]: > [ 11.630078] [ > [ 11.630230] modprobe > [ 11.630382] ] > [ 11.630592] modprobe: FATAL: Module uvesafb not found in directory > /lib/modules/6.0.10-gnu > > [ 11.631734] shepherd[1]: Failed to start maybe-uvesafb in the background. > [ 15.185776] 0000:04:00.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading > is disabled) I tried manually running the modprobe command from gnu/system/install.scm: /gnu/store/vh4g56m35wwlfg300s4qafykxjy09511-kmod-29/bin/modprobe uvesafb v86d=/gnu/store/na24a7653hyf0pghhw9nhfr6mi15v6cz-v86d-0.1.10/sbin/v86d mode_option=1024x768 Works fine. I can switch back by Ctrl-Alt-F1 and the graphical installer works. /run/current-system/kernel/lib/modules/6.0.10-gnu/kernel/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.ko.gz exists. So I tried waiting until it exists before modprobe (in the attached patch). But modprobe still fails in the same way, according to dmesg, even though the file evidently already existed. Why doesn’t modprobe find it? Where does it look? I will try tomorrow to get an strace. The installer worked fine in … August I believe. Regards, Florian
From: Florian Pelz <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:33:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH doesnt work] installer: Fix uvesafb not loading. * gnu/system/install.scm (uvesafb-shepherd-service): Wait before invoking modprobe. --- gnu/system/install.scm | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm index f6f1923121..ffde933990 100644 --- a/gnu/system/install.scm +++ b/gnu/system/install.scm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Andreas Enge <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> -;;; Copyright © 2020 Florian Pelz <[email protected]> +;;; Copyright © 2020, 2022 Florian Pelz <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Josselin Poiret <[email protected]> ;;; @@ -289,11 +289,18 @@ (define (uvesafb-shepherd-service _) (provision '(maybe-uvesafb)) (requirement '(file-systems)) (start #~(lambda () - (or (file-exists? "/dev/fb0") - (invoke #+(file-append kmod "/bin/modprobe") + (define (start-uvesafb) + ;; HOW TO DO THIS THE RIGHT WAY?? + (if (file-exists? "/run/current-system/kernel/lib\ +/modules/6.0.10-gnu/kernel/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.ko.gz") + (invoke #+(file-append kmod "/bin/modprobe") "uvesafb" (string-append "v86d=" #$v86d "/sbin/v86d") - "mode_option=1024x768")))) + "mode_option=1024x768") + ;; Wait and try again. + (begin (sleep 1) (start-uvesafb)))) + (or (file-exists? "/dev/fb0") + (start-uvesafb)))) (respawn? #f) (one-shot? #t)))) -- 2.38.1
