Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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> Hello,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When booting my Guix System with linux-libre 6.0.8, nouveau silently
>> fails to render OpenGL. It includes symptoms such as:
>>
>> 1. Getting stuck on the GDM screen, which makes use of OpenGL
>> 2. Not being able to use Qt5 or Qt6 applications, which renders via
>> OpenGL.
>> 3. the 'glxgears' program from mesa-utils displays frozen gears (not
>> turning)
>>
>> My graphic card is an old nvidia 8800 GTS with 640 MiB of video RAM.
>>
>> Workaround: Adding the '(kernel linux-libre-5.15)' to my OS definition
>> fixes it.
>
> Now reported upstream at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/192.
The commit that regressed was found via git bisect, by using the
following in my system configuration:
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modified guix/hurd.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
(use-modules (gnu)
+ (guix git)
(guix modules)
(guix store)
(srfi srfi-1)
@@ -98,6 +99,21 @@
+(define make-linux-libre* (@@ (gnu packages linux) make-linux-libre*))
+
+(define (linux-source commit)
+ (git-checkout
+ (url "file:///home/maxim/src/linux")
+ (commit commit)))
+
+(define %linux-commit "889fcbe949bdd8470931a90b91f273ca18c510c1")
+
+(define-public %linux-kernel
+ (make-linux-libre* "5.19" "0" (linux-source %linux-commit) '("x86_64-linux")
+ #:configuration-file (@@ (gnu packages linux) kernel-config)
+ #:extra-version "stock"
+ #:build-doc? #f))
+
(define %mapped-devices
(list (mapped-device
And changing the value of %linux-commit for each git bisect. The
original git-checkout clone took forever (multiple hours), but after the
initial clone done, each kernel build took about 20 minutes on a fast
machine.
The offending Linux commit is 889fcbe949bdd8470931a90b91f273ca18c510c1 [0]
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Thanks,
Maxim
