void-linux
Live installer graphics failure
The void installer (void-live-x86_64-20191109-enlightenment.iso) has graphical bits that failed on my desktop/monitor. After selecting either entry from Grub (void or void RAM), about 2/3 of my screen was the void graphic, and the lower third was pixelated error messages. The errors looked like nouveau timeouts. The lower 1/3 was the output of the console, but with some weird line wrapping too. If I hit enter a bunch, eventually I'd see new 'text' there.
To get the thing working at all, I had to hack the grub command line, set gfxpayload=keep and pass nomodeset to linux, and stripped out the vconsole args (probably needlessly).
At that point, I could at least get to a working terminal, however every 5 seconds or so the console would switch to the 'X' console (F7), and I'd have to ctl-shift-F1 back to my shell. I managed to figure out that lxdm was part of the problem, so chmod -x /sbin/lxdm 'solved' the problem, at least for this boot. I think runsv was starting it, it would take over the console, and possibly fail.
FWIW, I have an nvidia geforce RTX 2070 super (vendor 0x10de device 0x139e). Perhaps the nouveau driver didn't like it?
Regardless of the root cause of my particular issue, I suggest having an easy option for users to fallback to a "no graphics whatsoever" mode for installation. I imagine other users will have similar issues.
You basically have this using the base installer which does not have X11 and does not even try to start a DM.
I agree, however, that a boot option to not try to start the DM (i.e. no-X11) might be useful even for the Live ISOs which have a DM/DE available.
If you know how to add that to the isolinux config perhaps create a PR for this additional option for the boot menu?
hi there! :)
maybe this could be interesting to u, maybe it can even help magically to make things smoother, however i dont have any experience with it as of now, and i didnt find it in the void repos: https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/entrance
btw i didnt get such issues neither with the latest live, nor its installed version, so i guess u may be right about nouveau, and, fyi, i have integrated intel graphics if im right (asus s200e-ct206h). furthermore i have 3 problems with it on debian that i didnt have on void when i tried it, and i plan to use void with it, just i still need to arrive to that point... :D otherwise note that my latest experimenting took place some months ago, and theres some chance that anything happened in this period.
and finally, i guess this is actually an upstream issue, and in that case: https://phab.enlightenment.org
good luck! :)
If you know how to add that to the isolinux config perhaps create a PR for this additional option for the boot menu?
We could add a different services directory that isn't graphic, then boot with nographics in the kernel command line or similar. Because the other option is booting into single, and that one is too barebones.
