Re: Few notes to 0.8

2014-11-29 Thread 宋文武
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Adam Pribyl skribis: > >> I have now, with the help of people from this list, running >> installation, with more or less complete config.scm. Guix gets better >> with every version. > > Thanks for the detailed feedback, as usual! > >> 1. even thou networking and lsh-ser

poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

2014-11-29 Thread Federico Beffa
Hi, I'm experimenting with the system in a qemu-kvm virtual machine. I created an image and successfully booted. However, scrolling of the display is unusably slow (e.g. displaying dmesg). The same problem is also visible in Ludovic's presentation http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2014/2014-08-

Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

2014-11-29 Thread Federico Beffa
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with the system in a qemu-kvm virtual machine. I > created an image and successfully booted. However, scrolling of the > display is unusably slow (e.g. displaying dmesg). The same problem is > also visible in Ludovi

Re: Few notes to 0.8

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
宋文武 skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Adam Pribyl skribis: [...] >>> 2. during boot the system twice sets the console font, each time to a >>> different one (this is not always reproducible). Minor. >> >> Hmm, you mean on the same tty? > Yeah, I have issue too, solved by: > > (initrd

Re: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under $out/share/man

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
宋文武 skribis: > From f961e72823cda48406d0058902c67b6b663da791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:52:59 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under > $out/share/man. > > * gnu/packages/linux.scm (wi

Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > Have someone found out the reason for this poor performance in > qemu-kvm and how to fix it? Yes, I eventually found out: by default, QEMU uses a Cirrus VGA graphics adapter emulator, which is damn slow for this kind of framebuffer thing. The right thing is to use ‘-vg

Re: gnu: Add mg.

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > From 9946ebe13954913513956c8d8130f58149daf45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Taylan Ulrich B > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:14:16 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add mg. > > * gnu/packages/mg.scm: New file. > * gnu-system.am (GNU_SY

[PATCH] gnu: Rename fonts according to our new naming scheme.

2014-11-29 Thread Andreas Enge
What do you think of keeping "gnu" as a foundry in the third font? There I added "-ttf"; so far, this is the only format we have packaged, but the ftp site provides more formats in separate tarballs. If someone interested in fonts feels up to it, there is a newer version 20120503, but as a .zip in

Re: Installing the system from another distro

2014-11-29 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost 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. >

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add matplotlib.

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > For python2-matplotlib I've noticed a behavior that I do not > understand: matplotlib depends on numpydoc which I pushed yesterday > and appears not to be ready yet on hydra. If I build > python2-matplotlib with > > ./pre-inst-env guix build python2-matplotlib > > guix t

Re: Few notes to 0.8

2014-11-29 Thread Alex Kost
宋文武 (2014-11-29 14:57 +0300) wrote: [...] > I just put it in my config.scm: > > (define (console-layout-service layout) > (with-monad %store-monad > (return > (service >(document "Setup keyboard layout for console") >(provision '(console-layout)) >(start #~

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Rename fonts according to our new naming scheme.

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > What do you think of keeping "gnu" as a foundry in the third font? Fine with me. > There I added "-ttf"; so far, this is the only format we have packaged, > but the ftp site provides more formats in separate tarballs. OK. > If someone interested in fonts feels up to it

Re: Installing the system from another distro

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost 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

Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

2014-11-29 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Long story short: we just need to update MESA to use the newer libdrm, > and we should be able to fix that. > Would you like to try? :-) I did try to update mesa, which was the source of some new packages in the xorg module. Howev

Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

2014-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Long story short: we just need to update MESA to use the newer libdrm, >> and we should be able to fix that. >> Would you like to try? :-) > > I did try to update mesa, which was the source of some new pa

Re: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under $out/share/man

2014-11-29 Thread 宋文武
Ludovic Courtès writes: > 宋文武 skribis: > >> From f961e72823cda48406d0058902c67b6b663da791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= >> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:52:59 +0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under >> $out/share/man