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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: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:18:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw79u2mg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oarpvi0w.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:47 +0300")

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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?

In theory we could add all of them by default, but ISTR that some of
them didn’t build, or are only useful for VM guests.

> I see that you added a commented line for xf86-video-modesetting, so I
> assume that adding all available modules may introduce unexpected
> issues.

xf86-video-modesetting is not currently usable due to a libdrm version
mismatch, as I just wrote to Federico.

> 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'.

Please push.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-29 21:19 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
2014-11-29 21:00           ` Alex Kost
2014-11-29 21:18             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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