From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nee Subject: I installed GuixSD on my laptop Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 22:53:24 +0200 Message-ID: <86942c60-38fb-7cd4-7162-72705c50c15a@cock.li> 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]:35955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHG3E-0004Tn-GP for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:53:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHG3B-0004kS-DG for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:53:36 -0400 Received: from cock.li ([185.100.85.212]:56296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHG3B-0004bw-0Y for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:53:33 -0400 Content-Language: en-GB List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hello everyone, a few months ago I installed GuixSD 0.12 in a luks encrypted partition on my laptop. Here are some problems I have with it so far. 1. How do I set the locale in the login manager and Grub. I have a German keyboard, but the system boots with an english key-setting and only changes when I enter gnome or xfce (I had to set them up via their guis). Is there any GuixSD-level setting for this? The install manual didn't mention it. It's a real pain to enter my password like this. 2. I have to enter my disk-encryption-password two times on every boot. Once before grub and one time when shepard boots up. I have my bootloader on a diferent drive, might this be related to the issue? 3. When I enter one wrong password on the first disk-encryption-prompt (before grub) I get thrown into a grub console. It should give me a few more tries. 4. ibus is not working in xfce. I copied the paths from the popup of ibus-setup into my .bashrc, but even after login out, I couldn't get any program to actually use ibus. I also had no success in gnome later. I was trying to get Japanease input to work. 5. I've been using thunderbird with Enigmail previously. I think I read on irc that icedove would be the way to go, and that it hasn't been packaged yet. Enigmail is really neat, so I wouldn't want to be without it. 6. My laptop has an Nvidia and an Intel graphics card, how do I force intel to be active? The Nouveau drivers can't do any 3d stuff at a bearable framerate, probably due to it's dependence on blobs. I wonder if Intel would perform better. How would I switch between them on GuixSD? 7. I have this wifi stick: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu= -linux-tpe-n150usb Is the driver already packaged for guixsd? * An unrelated story: I had to install GuixSD twice, because I forgot to punch "(dependencies mapped-devices)" into my file-system configuration. So shepard would not boot up properly and after some time I got a guile debug repl. I see that this is my own fault, for not reading the docs properly. I hope the new ncurses installer will help to prevent such mistakes. * Not a problem: Touchpad works different My first observation was that the touchpad was not working correctly. The touchpad only works for mouse movement. Clicking by tapping any point on the pad does not work. Scrolling by moving down/up the right edge does not work. I use the hardware buttons below it for clicking, but I wonder, aren't there some laptops without those? Later I found out that scrolling works with two fingers and this whole setup is actually much better, since I do way less misclicks that way! * xf86-input-synaptics? Because I previously tried nixos I directly installed xf86-input-synaptics with my installation. I never tried to use my system without it. If it is required it should be mentioned in the docs. Have a nice day, and happy hacking on GuixSD!