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.
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) 2022-10-15 17:39:03 +02:00 committed by Florian Pelz
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@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -17,6 +18,8 @@
;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
(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)))