From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing the system from another distro
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:06:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d289ty4p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k32hu2to.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:25:23 +0300")
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-25 17:48 +0300) wrote:
[...]
>> Note that you’ll also need to pass --root= and --system= on the kernel
>> command line (see the ‘operating-system-grub.cfg’ procedure.)
>
> And --load= too :-)
Oops. I wanted to make sure you would find by yourself. ;-)
>> As you see, passing --no-grub is not an optimized use case. :-)
>
> 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.
> 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?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 13:43 Installing the system from another distro Alex Kost
2014-11-24 17:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-25 12:57 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-25 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-26 20:25 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-26 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-11-29 21:00 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-29 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
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