Install on Trashcan Mac
Hello, I am having a problem installing on a "Trashcan" Mac Pro (Intel Xeon E5). The installation itself ran smoothly. After the first restart, only a black screen appeared. There was no way to open a terminal. I suspect that this is due to a missing driver for the AMD FirePro.
Thank you very much.
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it has the driver, it's built into the kernel
what if you switch to a different tty?
no idea how to on a mac keyboard though
was this asked on reddit
Install on Trashcan Mac
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Hello, I am having a problem installing on a Trashcan Mac Pro. The installation itself ran smoothly. After the first restart, only a black screen appeared. There was no way to open a terminal. I suspect that this is due to a missing driver for the AMD FirePro.
Thank you very much.
the function keys don't change
you just use that other key next to alt that isn't cmd
because command maps to meta
I also tried a standard keyboard, but couldn't open a virtual console. Maybe there is a promising boot option?
Yes, I asked it there before.
really not sure what it could be. i don't really touch mac stuff, but if you're not getting anything on screen post-installation, i'm really not sure how we'd even troubleshoot that
my best idea is to boot up a live usb, chroot into it, and see if journalctl works without systemd running
even then like
do you at least get grub?
Yes, I get to grub. I could push the 'e' "to edit comands ...."
The next step, entering my password, is still running. After that, nothing works anymore.
try installing without fde
i'm not sure what exactly could be the problem, but that is a possibility
With the boot option nomodeset, I was able to boot up and the GUI was there. However, everything ran very slowly.
hm that's odd
guessing there was no video acceleration for whatever reason
try running
glxgears -info and vulkaninfo (iirc)
and report backi think its glxinfo
no i meant
glxgears -info
but yeah can prob just do glxinfo
so it should work regardless but apparently glxgears/glxinfo would go via xwayland
so not ideal for troubleshooting unless that's what you wanti use wayland and it works
yeah it works but likeeee for troubleshooting
gets all the gpu info
unless you're specifically trying to debug xwayland stuff
adds another potential point of failure when trying to troubleshoot an issue
so vulkaninfo would be better to use
(also if you try to pipe glxgears to
head or whatever it breaks on wayland)
okay actually i might just be dumb-
(regarding the piping thing)
anyways yeah
try vulkaninfo | grep VkPhysicalDeviceProperties -A10 and report backWhen I try to use the commands, I get a “Command not found” error. I probably need to install something else first. Under Gnome -> Settings -> System -> Info, “Software Rendering” is displayed under Graphics.
vulkan-tools or something like that
Do I use akshara or bpkg for this?
Sorry for asking. But my plan was to install Blendos first and then take a closer look at it.
Yes akshara
OK, vulkaninfo | grep VkPhysicalDeviceProperties -A10 yields:
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers!
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan.
ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools/vulkaninfo/./vulkaninfo.h:573:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER
Yeah it’s using pixman most likely
Aka CPU based rendering
that's odd
well no
pixman should work fine
it would be rendering on the cpu but
it should work
my setup was broken a bit ago and i was rendering sway on pixman
vkcube worked fine and everything
just the only device that showed was llvmpipe
It might be missing the ICD files for that
Perhaps I could use a different kernel?
it's almost certainly not a kernel issue
rather a configuration issue