Xorg won't start

Xorg won't start

[someone]

Im unable to start Xorg on one of my laptops - can't get to slim or start 
a desktop service with xfce4start etc.

At the second to last line of Xorg.0.log I have:
   systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
full log is at http://sprunge.us/WNGa

Is there a way to fix this?

For the sake of testing I then ran guix package -i libdrm && mpv --vo drm 
my_vid.wmv which hangs the console (not the pointer but can't cancel the 
process) and Im unable to switch tty.

I also tried changing slim to sddm and setting wayland instead of X11 but 
that didn't help. I also tried to define my-slim-service and add the nouveau 
driver in case there's a problem with the intel graphics but I weren't 
able to write it correctly, this didn't work:

> (define (my-slim-service)
>         (mlet* %store-monad ((config (xorg-configuration-file
> ;;              #:drivers '("nouveau" "vesa")
>                 #:resolutions '((1920 1080) (1366 768) (1024 768))
> ))
>                              (startx (xorg-start-command
>                 #:configuration-file config)))
>         (slim-service #:startx startx)))
..
(services (cons* (xfce-desktop-service)
                  (my-slim-service)
                  %desktop-services))

Any ideas, anyone?

Re: Xorg won't start

[Ricardo Wurmus]

someone@selfhosted.xyz writes:

>> (define (my-slim-service)
>>         (mlet* %store-monad ((config (xorg-configuration-file
>> ;;              #:drivers '("nouveau" "vesa")
>>                 #:resolutions '((1920 1080) (1366 768) (1024 768))
>> ))
>>                              (startx (xorg-start-command
>>                 #:configuration-file config)))
>>         (slim-service #:startx startx)))
> ..
> (services (cons* (xfce-desktop-service)
>                   (my-slim-service)
>                   %desktop-services))

This probably won’t do what you want.  First, the %desktop-services
contain an implementation of the slim-service-type, so you’ll get two
services that want to start X.

Instead of defining my-slim-service (which looks more complicated than
it should), how about just modifying the service with the
slim-service-type?  Here’s a snippet to append config snippets to the
xorg configuration file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (services (cons* (whatever-service)
                   (modify-services %desktop-services
                     (slim-service-type
                      config => (slim-configuration
                                 (inherit config)
                                 (startx (xorg-start-command
                                          #:configuration-file
                                          (xorg-configuration-file
                                           #:extra-config
                                           (list marble-mouse-settings
                                                 dvorak-evdev)))))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Hope this helps!

--
Ricardo

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