From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Installing the system from another distro Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:18:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87mw79u2mg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a93gww7l.fsf@gmail.com> <87lhn0zf9c.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq6jv3nx.fsf@gmail.com> <87r3wrfi9f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k32hu2to.fsf@gmail.com> <87d289ty4p.fsf@gnu.org> <87oarpvi0w.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupPv-0006ZB-6h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:19:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupPl-0004Xd-Hg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:18:59 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:43787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupPl-0004XQ-AQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:18:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87oarpvi0w.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:47 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost skribis: > > [...] > >>> Thanks for the pointers! You helped to figure it out. And the system >>> is awesome!! The only big issue I've noticed so far is: the screen >>> resolution was 800x600 for me and xrandr didn't give any other option. >>> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" told me that the module for my videocard ("sis") >>> wasn't loaded. I looked at (gnu services xorg) and found that not all >>> available "xf86-video-=E2=80=A6" modules are placed at "xserver.conf". = Is there >>> a reason for that? >> >> No reason! Please do add it. > > I checked that adding xf86-video-sis fixes the resolution problem. But > did you mean to add just xf86-video-sis (a trivial patch for this is > attached) or all modules? In theory we could add all of them by default, but ISTR that some of them didn=E2=80=99t build, or are only useful for VM guests. > I see that you added a commented line for xf86-video-modesetting, so I > assume that adding all available modules may introduce unexpected > issues. xf86-video-modesetting is not currently usable due to a libdrm version mismatch, as I just wrote to Federico. > From 35119792b81cc7f0fbb68f096df2bd6f6727eaeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Kost > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:49:58 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] services: xorg: Add 'xf86-video-sis'. > > * gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-start-command)[xserver.conf]: Add > ModulePath for 'xf86-video-sis'. Please push. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.