Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Sure. But it will. Because no one ever tests this. It's not an interesting use case for anyone writing a driver. This bug might ave been there for a long time, and it might never disappear. Who should report it? Even if I had first hand experience with it, I still don't have any useful logs to provide. Debugging gpu issues locking up the system is non-trivial since the primary console is dead. I considered netconsole, but didn't go there since I had a strict time limit and it wasn't my laptop. >> 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 ? Do you want to install the firmware this laptop needs for wifi, sound and gpu? > 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. Don't have access to the laptop anymore, unfortunately. So I can't check the logs. But it's good to know that it was supposed to install those packages. Bjørn
