On 13/04/2026 at 12:56, Bjørn Mork wrote:
First boot, after what I perceived as a successful install, resulted in
a black screen with a frozen cursor on top left. No response to any key
press. Hard power off was the only way out.
Booting in recovery mode and installing firmware-intel-graphics fixed
the problem.
This looks like a kernel driver bug. The system should not crash if some
required firmware is missing.
This is NOT a question about non-free firmware blobs. I'm fine with
asking users to explictly install those. The problem is that there was
no such question, and the system was so broken without the firmware that
most users are unable to make that choice even if they knew about it.
Which question should be asked ?
By default, the installer (precisely the hw-detect component) tries to
find out which firmware packages are needed based on device modalias and
install them automatically. Installer logs in /var/log/installer may
provide information about why this failed.
