March 21, 2021 6:31 PM, "Bone Baboon" <bone.bab...@disroot.org> wrote:
> I am trying to start `xorg` from the Linux console virtual terminal 1 > (vt1) using `xinit`. I have not got `xorg` working yet and would > appreciate any assistance. May I ask why you are trying to manually run xinit? Is your favorite wm or desktop environment not packaged as a service in Guix? Ahh, I see you are just trying to start Emacs. Very awesome! If all you are wanting is to use Emacs, you could always just launch Emace from the virtual console, and not have mouse support. > > CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx > GPU: AMD ATI 05:00.0 Picasso > Maybe you're running into linux-libre GPU isses. I think the AMD graphics cards prefer to use some binary blobs to operate properly... > I have installed `xorg-server`, `xinit`, `xf86-video-ati`, > `xf86-video-fbdev`, `xf86-video-vesa` and `emacs`. > Though I thought xf86-video-vesa was supposed to run on almost anything.
