Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo, Thanks for reviewing :) > Should we instead build this functionality into ‘kmscon-service-type’, > possibly with a flag to turn it off? Well I thought about it, but if kmscon-service-type does the DRM support detection and exits "cleanly", how could we fallback to mingetty? Thanks,

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-02 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Efraim Flashner writes: > I haven't checked to see if my custom kernel works yet on my laptop, but > compile time was 43 minutes on my kids' computer. Stock > linux-libre@5.0.5 took 267 minutes. > > My custom kernel came in at 34MB, the stock kernel is 251MB. Great success! :) My attempts on my

Re: Status update on 1.0

2019-04-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello mikadoZero, mikadoZero skribis: > I created the iso on a x86_64 Guix System. > > I am trying to use the iso to install Guix System on a i686 computer. Then the ISO you created cannot run on the i686 machine. To create an i686 ISO on your x86_64 machine, you need to run: guix system di

Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.

2019-04-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Brett Gilio writes: > Okay, great Mono-5.0 builds successfully. So with that knowledge, I > tried to compile the latest Mono-5.18. However, shortly after the > configuration step it throws > > CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix > Makefiles". CMAKE_MAK

Re: Video narration

2019-04-02 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura, > Great! Could you remind me in UTC at which time of the day? Because I > generally have to record them at 00 UTC to reduce the environmental > noise. And then match them. > Thank you for uploading the cli audios for the packaging3 video. That completes the set! I will be going to t

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:01:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > > > Here's a patch that fallback to mingetty if kmscon is not supported. I > > don't have a machine with AMD GPU for testing so if Florian or Pierre > > could test the patch that would

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Gavin, Gavin Smith skribis: > Documentation for GNU packages and others is often installed in the > Info format, a plain text format. Using a plaintext based format for > documentation does not take advantage of bitmapped displays that have > been available for decades. It does not allow

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:26:05AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:01:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Hi Mathieu, > > > > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > > > > > Here's a patch that fallback to mingetty if kmscon is not supported. I > > > don't have a mac

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-02 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:04:29AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > I haven't checked to see if my custom kernel works yet on my laptop, but > > compile time was 43 minutes on my kids' computer. Stock > > linux-libre@5.0.5 took 267 minutes. > > > > My custom kernel c

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-02 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 09:46:27PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Related to that (somewhat :-)), it’d be great to have a kernel config > specialized for VMs that can boot very quickly. > > The Kata Containers folks (it has the word “containers” in it but it’s > really about VMs) prid

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:37:51AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > (For some reason ‘i’ does open the index search box for me, but then > hitting enter doesn’t produce any effect. The other navigation commands > work fine, though.) It works on Firefox 53, at least. > Yet I’m not completely sold

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
On 4/2/19 2:37 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Yet I’m not completely sold to the everything in the browser approach, and everything in JavaScript. In an ideal world (for me), we’d rather provide a local documentation viewer I don't think we're aiming for "everything in the browser". A closer app

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

2019-04-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> Currently, without --user, we keep the current user’s name. So it would >> actually be consistent to inherit its UID as well. And with ‘--user’, >> we’d use the given user name and UID 1000. (Essentially what Pierre >> propo

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mathieu, I would prefer if we just passed "nomodeset" to the Linux kernel in the installer image (in the installer image only) in order to disable all those funny drivers in the first place. Then, grub would use vesa in order to initialize graphics - which should have seen testing for... fo

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
On 4/2/19 8:02 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: Using JavaScript within a web browser has big drawbacks due to its "sandboxed" nature. (You can't access environment variables, for example.) However, we'd want to avoid having to re-implement too much of the web browser; for example, input file parsing, te

Re: Video narration

2019-04-02 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 1., H, 20:02): > > Hi Paul! > > > > I have finished updating the transcripts and I am preparing to do the > > recordings tomorrow. > Great! Could you remind me in UTC at which time of the day? Because I > generally have to record them at 00 UTC t

Re: Guix on a microkernel

2019-04-02 Thread Joshua Branson
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Pjotr Prins skribis: > >> Call it an accident of history ;). Being a GNU project we have a stake >> in getting the Hurd to a usable level and get people to start using >> it for daily work. > > Maybe I shouldn’t write such a thing today, or maybe writing it toda

Re: Video narration

2019-04-02 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi :) > Sorry, I am late to the party. To clarify things, the following is > happening here: > 1. at first guix is built from source, in a guix environment guix > 2. the package is added > 3. the package build is tested using pre-inst-env guix build package > > So, the environment is not for r-asp

Re: Video narration

2019-04-02 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Paul! > Thank you for uploading the cli audios for the packaging3 video. That > completes the set! Yeah! > > I will be going to the studio in half an hour (11.00am UTC). They have > a space with low background noise. However, I will ask for a short > 'silence' recording too, so that we can

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I hear the argument; it’s true that not everyone uses Emacs or is > familiar with the standalone Info reader. Rendering of Info manuals in > Emacs is not bad, but a modern browser can do a better job. > > Yet I’m not completely sold to the everything in the browser ap

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> I hear the argument; it’s true that not everyone uses Emacs or is >> familiar with the standalone Info reader. Rendering of Info manuals in >> Emacs is not bad, but a modern browser can do a better job. >> >> Yet I’m not completely sold to

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread George Clemmer
Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith writes: [...] > A manual with this interface added is at > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo-html/Overview.html. > All the important keyboard commands that work in the Info viewers are > implemented, including index lookup. Nice! I like seeing Info command

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
On 4/2/19 1:12 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of documentation and it does support Info files. That reads *info* files. We're talking about reading *html* files. See Gavin's original message for why we want to use html. -- --Per

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread sirgazil
El 2/04/19 a las 3:27 p. m., Ricardo Wurmus escribió: Ricardo Wurmus writes: Ludovic Courtès writes: I hear the argument; it’s true that not everyone uses Emacs or is familiar with the standalone Info reader. Rendering of Info manuals in Emacs is not bad, but a modern browser can do a bet

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-04-02 Thread sirgazil
El 2/04/19 a las 5:10 p. m., Per Bothner escribió: On 4/2/19 1:12 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of documentation and it does support Info files. That reads *info* files.  We're talking about reading *html* files. See Gavin's original m

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-02 Thread mikadoZero
Ludovic Courtès writes: > ... > Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer > networks: it’s something where you want availability guarantee, whereas > peer-to-peer storage networks usually replicate content that’s popular, > while unpopular content disappears. > ... As

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:42:38PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > The more current commit 0e558640361b6ab4aac0f424cb587b21a642bab8 > without the patch runs into a Guile prompt because of an error in > resolve-variable of something with setuid-binaries on grandma’s laptop > and into a di

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-02 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:31:40PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > I would prefer if we just passed "nomodeset" to the Linux kernel in the > installer image (in the installer image only) in order to disable all those > funny drivers in the first place. > > Then, grub would u