Gary Johnson writes:
> Hmm...that's odd. %desktop-services contains both the gdm-service and
> the elogind-service, which should bring X along for the ride. It sounds
> like something in your configuration is preventing these services from
> presenting you with a graphical login screen.
>
> Could you share your operating-system declaration?
Here is my operating-system declaration:
```
(operating-system
(locale "en_US.utf8")
(timezone "America/City")
(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "dvp"))
(host-name "user")
(users (cons* (user-account
(name "user")
(group "users")
(home-directory "/home/user")
(supplementary-groups
'("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages
(append
(list
;shell
dash
;networking
ath9k-htc-firmware
wpa-supplicant
nss-certs
openvpn
openssh-sans-x
netcat
curl
wget
speedtest-cli
;compression
unzip
;encryption
gnupg
;version control
git
;spelling
hunspell
hunspell-dict-en-us
;x11 stuff
eudev
xorg-server
xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-vesa
xinit
xdotool
xbanish
xev
sxhkd
setxkbmap
xrandr
;emacs
emacs
emacs-exwm
;mail
mu
offlineimap
msmtp
;graphical web browsers
surf
nyxt
;communictations
toxic
qtox
jami
mumble)
%base-packages))
(services (append (list
(service lxqt-desktop-service-type))
%desktop-services))
(bootloader
(bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
(target "/boot/efi")
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(kernel-arguments '("nomodeset"))
(mapped-devices
(list (mapped-device
(source
(uuid "db155150-4229-4526-a67c-a3036e048c58"))
(target "cryptroot")
(type luks-device-mapping))))
(file-systems
(cons* (file-system
(mount-point "/boot/efi")
(device (uuid "318D-D6A7" 'fat32))
(type "vfat"))
(file-system
(mount-point "/")
(device "/dev/mapper/cryptroot")
(type "ext4")
(dependencies mapped-devices))
%base-file-systems))
(swap-devices (list "/swapfile")))
```
> Have you set up any custom X configuration files somewhere that might
> be interfering with the X launching process?
The only X related configuration files that I am aware of are:
.xinitrc with the contents "exec emacs".
.xsession with the contents "exwm".
.Xauthority is an empty file.
.Xdefaults has the contents:
```
XTerm*utf8: always
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
```
.exwm that contains my EXWM configuration.
If there are other relevant configuration files I can share there
contents as well.
> Is your graphics card supported with Guix and the X server?
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
GPU: AMD ATI 05:00.0 Picasso
The graphics card works with the X server. When I had Void installed on
the computer I was able to start X using `startx` with no problems.
Void uses a vanilla Linux kernel that has not been deblobbed like
Linux-libre.
I do not know if the graphics card is supported by Guix?
