Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.

[Brendan Tildesley]

On 12/10/20 6:32 am, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:23:30PM +1100, Brendan Tildesley wrote:
> > Hi, I went through the installer looking for anything negative I could say
> > about it :) hope there is something helpful here:
> Thank you for testing!
>
>
> > Unrelated driver bug: installer was just a black screen until I rebooted
> > with nomodeset:  https://paste.debian.net/1166581/
> > Even with nomodeset, I get an error about no UMS supported in radeon, but it
> > doesn't stop anything.
> This black screen regression should be “fixed” now (commit
> 34d436a4082b5c5f23b00e13eb8e5a92d957d704) by passing a kernel argument
> “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” which disables the radeon driver.

I think you copy-pasted the wrong link in to that commit. it links to a 
thread about the translation stuff i mentioned below, not about the 
radeon driver.

- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00441.html