Re: Installing the system from another distro

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

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Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> 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-…" 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?  I see that you added a commented line for
xf86-video-modesetting, so I assume that adding all available modules
may introduce unexpected issues.

>> Hm, perhaps I just need to install "xf86-video-sis" package (I should
>> have tried it before asking).
>
> X would not find it; it really needed to be listed in the search path in
> xorg.conf.
>
>> Also I have a question.  I usually add some custom lines to "xorg.conf".
>> I suppose currently there is no other way to do it but to make my own
>> xorg (slim) service.  Right?
>
> Actually it’s ‘xorg-start-command’ that creates xorg.conf.
>
> The best thing would be to add a parameter to that function to allow
> arbitrary text to be appended.  (Well, not just text, but a list of
> strings and possibly packages; the ‘xserver.conf’ procedure would do
> (apply text-file* "xserver.conf" ... user-text).)
>
> WDYT?

Yes, it would be good.  Currently I don't need it, but I'll look at it
if I will have such need :-)


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From 35119792b81cc7f0fbb68f096df2bd6f6727eaeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
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'.
---
 gnu/services/xorg.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
index 5236573..c813f0f 100644
--- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ Section \"Files\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-video-intel "/lib/xorg/modules/drivers\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-video-mach64 "/lib/xorg/modules/drivers\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-video-nv "/lib/xorg/modules/drivers\"
+  ModulePath \"" xf86-video-sis "/lib/xorg/modules/drivers\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-input-keyboard "/lib/xorg/modules/input\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-input-mouse "/lib/xorg/modules/input\"
   ModulePath \"" xf86-input-synaptics "/lib/xorg/modules/input\"
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