From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: I installed GuixSD on my laptop Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:53:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8737becisr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <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]:48018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHy4n-00044b-6A for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:54:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHy4e-0002D9-0w for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:54:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86942c60-38fb-7cd4-7162-72705c50c15a@cock.li> (nee@cock.li's message of "Sat, 3 Jun 2017 22:53:24 +0200") 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: nee Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi, nee skribis: > 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. As ng0 mentioned, we=E2=80=99ll have to move away from SLiM (the login mana= ger) to get proper i18n. As for GRUB, it=E2=80=99s really a bug on our side that we should fix. Ple= ase report it to bug-guix@gnu.org so we don=E2=80=99t lose track of it. > 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. I agree; not sure why GRUB behaves this way nor whether this is configurable. > 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. I think IBus was previously reported to work fine in GNOME; maybe =E5=AE=8B= =E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6 or Ricardo can comment? Otherwise it=E2=80=99s worth a bug report too. > 6. My laptop has an Nvidia and an Intel graphics card, how do I force > intel to be active? Dunno. > The Nouveau drivers can't do any 3d stuff at a bearable framerate, > probably due to it's dependence on blobs. Nouveau is free software and doesn=E2=80=99t rely on non-free firmware, AFA= IK. > I wonder if Intel would perform better. How would I switch between them > on GuixSD? Dunno! > 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? I think so, it=E2=80=99s an Atheros chip: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Hardware-Consideration= s.html > * 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. Yeah, I agree that this API makes it too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. No idea about the touchpad. Thanks for your feedback! Ludo=E2=80=99.