From 682639c107908426fe6bf0a1b8404b98b7820290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:39:03 +0200 Subject: installer: welcome: Warn when uvesafb gets used. There will be false positives: Because the Guix installer uses the kernel argument modprobe.blacklist=radeon,amdgpu and some AMD graphics actually work okay according to h-node, these users will get a false alarm. * gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm (run-welcome-page): Warn before showing the welcome page. --- gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu') diff --git a/gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm b/gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm index 7a7ddfb7bd..0bca44d1b2 100644 --- a/gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm +++ b/gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe ;;; Copyright © 2020 Ludovic Courtès +;;; Copyright © 2022 Florian Pelz ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ ;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see . (define-module (gnu installer newt welcome) + #:use-module ((gnu build linux-modules) + #:select (modules-loaded)) #:use-module (gnu installer steps) #:use-module (gnu installer utils) #:use-module (gnu installer newt page) @@ -121,30 +124,38 @@ (define (run-welcome-page logo) "Run a welcome page with the given textual LOGO displayed at the center of the page. Ask the user to choose between manual installation, graphical installation and reboot." - (run-menu-page - (G_ "GNU Guix install") - (G_ "Welcome to GNU Guix system installer! + (begin + (when (member "uvesafb" (modules-loaded)) + (run-error-page (G_ "\ +This may be a false alarm, but possibly your graphics hardware does not +work well with only free software. Expect trouble. If after installation, +the system does not boot, perhaps you will need to add nomodeset to the +kernel arguments and need to configure the uvesafb kernel module.") + (G_ "Pre-install warning"))) + (run-menu-page + (G_ "GNU Guix install") + (G_ "Welcome to GNU Guix system installer! You will be guided through a graphical installation program. If you are familiar with GNU/Linux and you want tight control over \ the installation process, you can instead choose manual installation. \ Documentation is accessible at any time by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2.") - logo - #:listbox-items - `((,(G_ "Graphical install using a terminal based interface") - . - ,(const #t)) - (,(G_ "Install using the shell based process") - . - ,(lambda () - ;; Switch to TTY3, where a root shell is available for shell based - ;; install. The other root TTY's would have been ok too. - (system* "chvt" "3") - (run-welcome-page logo))) - (,(G_ "Reboot") - . - ,(lambda () - (newt-finish) - (reboot)))) - #:listbox-item->text car)) + logo + #:listbox-items + `((,(G_ "Graphical install using a terminal based interface") + . + ,(const #t)) + (,(G_ "Install using the shell based process") + . + ,(lambda () + ;; Switch to TTY3, where a root shell is available for shell based + ;; install. The other root TTY's would have been ok too. + (system* "chvt" "3") + (run-welcome-page logo))) + (,(G_ "Reboot") + . + ,(lambda () + (newt-finish) + (reboot)))) + #:listbox-item->text car))) -- cgit v1.2.3