Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 07:26:27PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Then the installed system has no graphics too (graphics freeze at the > same message > > [ 51.910992] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA > > but I cannot add modprobe.blacklist=radeon because GRUB does not > r

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:00:23AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > From Florian's reports i cannot tell which ISO he used as base for > repacking. Maybe one should distinguish the ISOs by their Volume Id. Like: > GUIXSD_IMAGE_I686 > GUIXSD_IMAGE_X86_64 The current git master for x86_64. I can

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > From Florian's reports i cannot tell which ISO he used Florian Pelz wrote: > The current git master for x86_64. I begin to remember discussions about 64-bit Macs having 32-bit EFI firmware. Googling brought me to https://everymac.com/mac-answers/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-faq/mac-

Re: [WIP] Lightdm service

2019-04-18 Thread L p R n d n
Hello again! Just sharing some logsthat might be usefull. And everything is tested in a simple vm. Thanks, L p R n d n secure Description: Binary data lightdm.log Description: Binary data seat0-greeter.log Description: Binary data

Re: [WIP] Lightdm service

2019-04-18 Thread L p R n d n
Hello again again, Just to tell you, the problem has been fixed. For information, to start a xsession, it needed a correct wrapper. 'xinitrc' located in gnu/services/xorg.scm seems to provide just that. Adding it to the lightdm.conf under 'session-wrapper' makes the magic happen! :D Have a nice d

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Florian Pelz wrote: > > ... > On the 2011 Macbook I am using > > The rumors rather talk of the years up to 2010. But well ... > > Next week I can ask others who own newer Macbooks to try out the ISO. If this only affects old Macb

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-18 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > Hey all, Hi Katherine! > I brought this up in IRC tonight, and I thought I'd cast a net on the > mailing list to collect experiences. I am considering purchasing a > Librem laptop, and I was curious how Guix runs on it. Would anyone who > has these laptops (especial

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > I find a efi/boot/bootx64.efi PE executable inside efi.img on the Guix > ISO. On Debian the long name is EFI/boot/bootx64.iso in capital letters (I assume s/bootx64.iso/bootx64.efi/) It's FAT filesystem. Upper case or lower case does not matter. Most probably it is a ma

Re: TeX Live

2019-04-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> For the specific usability issue you mention (what’s the right package >> to install when one wants tables?), I think we should add a section in >> the manual, as has been discussed before. > > No package, this is default LaTeX. I think

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-18 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > I have a LibreM laptop. I'm not using it at the moment because I need > to send it in for repairs (and keep procrastinating on that) but I'll > say that GuixSD worked just fine out of the box. Is the boot process as secure as the so-called "Pure Boot" process

New template for 'shepherd' made available

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New Swedish PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.6.0-pre1)

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Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ludovic Courtès skribis: > I’ve written a post on the Software Heritage support in Guix: > > > https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deployment-to-a-long-term-source-code-archive/ As a followup, the Software Heritage folks posted an article on their blog: https:

Re: Video narration

2019-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Paul, Paul Garlick skribis: >> Can you tell me which players work for you? I tried with my browser >> and it still tells me that the file is corrupt :/ > > I have tested Parole and Videos media players and Firefox and Midori > browsers. All work except Firefox, which gives the message: > > '

Re: Should we upgrade openssl?

2019-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 17., Sze [...] >> Likewise, I don’t think the OpenSSL upgrade can be merged on time. But >> that’s OK: we can start working on it and have it merged as soon as >> possible, possibly with all of ‘core-updates’.

Re: Video narration

2019-04-18 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Paul! Sorry, I've got up to date with this. > Is Firefox the browser you are testing with? Yes, I tested both with Firefox and Icecat and get the same message, that it is corrupt :/ You mentioned you tried totem, right? In my case it runs and I can watch the video but the colours are changed. I

New German PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.6.0-pre1)

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Re: Introducing myself

2019-04-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
(I've just realised that there was a typo in the subject… shame on me! … fixed… unfortunately the Internet never forgets!!) Le 04/17, Pierre Neidhardt a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > > I'll try to package my favourite tools that > > are currently missing: ack, fd, fzf, udiskie, poetry, p

New French PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.6.0-pre1)

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Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this is the xorriso run for producing a layout like "isohybrid --uefi" with GRUB equipment for BIOS instead of ISOLINUX. I prepended command -stdio_sync "off" in order to make use of my generous amount of RAM for write buffering. The default syncs to disk every 16 MiB. Good with low RAM or fa

One-shot Shepherd services

2019-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Today I added support for “one-shot” services in the Shepherd: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=c121eedfff7a50feddcf08e173d2b0dd807e8804 One-shot services start, perform a short action, and are immediately marked as “stopped.” (systemd has something simil

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> If that’s the best option we have so far, we can do this: >> > > The patch works fine, but: > > The resolution is slightly too small to read all text boxes in the > installer’s disk p

Re: Introducing myself

2019-04-18 Thread John Soo
Hi Tanguy, I just realized you said you wanted an fzf replacement. I recommend fzy. It’s not quite as full featured as fzf but it gets the job done. - John > On Apr 18, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > > (I've just realised that there was a typo in the subject… shame on me! > … f

Re: Video narration

2019-04-18 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura and Ludo, > the colours are changed. Ie: the dark gray turns > green, and the white turns somewhat pink. Commit 4bd2e78b893fef5ce1f12bec895ee8234cabaf1f fixes the colors. ffmpeg needed a different pixel format to set the chroma subsampling correctly [1]. I have been able to play the ne

Re: One-shot Shepherd services

2019-04-18 Thread znavko
Is there possibility to define dependencies? F.e. networking will depend on my on-eshot service? Also what is service 'networking' really is, and can I use wpa-supplicant + dhcp-client without meta-service networking? April 18, 2019 9:39 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Hello Guix! > > Today I

Re: One-shot Shepherd services

2019-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Fantastic! This was one of the missing features for user services (e.g. a "sync-my-data" service that users would invoke manually). -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature