Guix installation disk - screen unreadable

Gerrit Draisma <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:30:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello all.

I wanted to know whether I could install guix on my computer.

I burned
guix-system-install-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.iso
on a DVD and tried to start the system.

The first grub menu and the guix logo turn out nice on the screen,
but after booting the graphics menu is unreadable.

I do not know how to halt the system than apart from holding down the 
ON/OFF button on the computer.

Is this PC to old? Or is there a way to correct the graphics screen?

Thanks,
Gerrit

My current system:
[gerrit@Olga Downloads]$ inxi -Fxx
System:
   Host: Olga Kernel: 6.12.56-pclos1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
     v: 15.2.0
   Desktop: MATE v: 1.28.2 wm: marco dm: 1: GDM 2: XDM Distro: PCLinuxOS 
2025
Machine:
   Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pro 3120 Small Form
     Factor PC v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3
     serial: <superuser required>
   Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2A94 v: 1.03 serial: <superuser required>
     part-nu: WU172EA#ABH BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.05 date: 04/26/2010
CPU:
   Info: dual core model: Pentium E5400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
rev: A
     cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 2 MiB
   Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 min/max: 1203/2700 cores: 1: 1197 2: 1197
     bogomips: 10772
   Flags-basic: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Graphics:
   Device-1: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
     driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: 
DP-1,HDMI-A-1
     bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2e22
   Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
type: USB
     rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-2:3 chip-ID: 046d:0826
   Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.20 compositor: marco v: 1.28.1 
driver: X:
     loaded: intel,v4l dri: i965 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x1024 s-dpi: 96
   Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA1 model: Acer AL1916 res: 1280x1024 hz: 60
     dpi: 86 diag: 482mm (19")
   API: OpenGL v: 2.1 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.9 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 2.0
     direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel G45/G43 (ELK) device-ID: 
8086:2e22
   Info: Tools: api: glxinfo x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
   Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
     driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3a3e
   Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
type: USB
     rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-2:3 chip-ID: 046d:0826
   API: ALSA v: k6.12.56-pclos1 status: kernel-api with: aoss
     type: oss-emulator
   Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
     status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: 
plugin
     4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
     vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
     lanes: 1 port: e800 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
   IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:71:bc:16:6f:92
Drives:
   Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 57.67 GiB (19.3%)
   ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3320418AS size: 298.09 GiB
     speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: 9VMGC3RZ
Partition:
   ID-1: / size: 29.07 GiB used: 16.56 GiB (57.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
   ID-2: /home size: 96.18 GiB used: 41.11 GiB (42.7%) fs: ext4
     dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
   ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
priority: -2
     dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
   Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
   Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
   Memory: total: N/A available: 7.74 GiB used: 1.66 GiB (21.5%)
   Processes: 184 Power: uptime: 22m wakeups: 0 Init: SysVinit v: 3.15
     runlevel: 5 default: 5
   Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: 2688 Compilers: gcc: 15.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0
     running-in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.3.39
[gerrit@Olga Downloads]$