Re: Eradicating PulseAudio

2023-08-23 Thread Robby Zambito
宋文武 writes: > Hello, you can disable the autospawn for PulseAudio by > put "autospawn = no" in ~/.config/pulse/client.conf. > > > It was not started by shepherd but autospawn by applications (eg: pulsemixer), > for reference: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/

Eradicating PulseAudio

2023-08-21 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi, Please help me eradicate PulseAudio from my system. It causes me nothing but pain. My most commonly run commands according to my bash history are pulsemixer followed by pgrep pulseaudio, which I use to debug my audio issues, and pkill pulseaudio followed by herd restart pipewire which I use to

Using NoiseTorch with Sway and Polkit

2023-07-19 Thread Robby Zambito
czjgp0bq4l-noisetorch-0.12.2/bin/NoiseTorch' as the super user Authenticating as: Robby Zambito (robby) Password: AUTHENTICATION FAILED The GUI will open (unlike the other method), but it will prompt saying it does not have the "capabilities to function properly", and

Re: Getting Guix to shutdown my laptop properly with Sway and no DE

2023-07-09 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi, I don't have any suggestions for you, I just wish to add that I am also having the same issue, and I use Sway and Elogind (but no display manager). I have been dealing with it by hard powering off also, but it would be nice to have a proper solution :) Robby

Re: Getting Guix to shutdown my laptop properly with Sway and no DE

2023-07-09 Thread Robby Zambito
dan...@tutanota.com writes: > Hi Robby,  > thanks for your response. > > Do you mind sharing your config? > I never managed on Guix to autologin and automatically start Sway without a > display manager. > > Daniele Hi Daniele, I actually don't have auto login / auto start Sway - I just login

Re: OBS Studio memory leak

2023-06-13 Thread Robby Zambito
Guillaume Le Vaillant writes: > It looks like an issue with the shader cache of mesa. > After clearing it, I don't see the memory leak anymore. > > Could you try doing a "rm -r $HOME/.cache/mesa_shader_cache/*" and see > if it also solves the issue for you? This worked for me! Thank you!

Re: OBS Studio memory leak

2023-06-13 Thread Robby Zambito
Hey, >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't know if its related, but I have a big memory leak issue with >> vlc. When trying to play a video with it, if the video output module it >> set to gl or vdpau_display, it consumes all the RAM of the machine in >> a few seconds (and I have to kill it fast to prevent th

Re: OBS Studio memory leak

2023-06-12 Thread Robby Zambito
Ott Joon writes: > Hey there > > I have the exact same issue and I think this has to do with > gstreamer. Some other programs are also affected by this bug. What > seems to happen is the gst-plugin-scanner starts searching for plugins > and just doesn't finish and leaks memory a ton. My 128GB o

Re: Guix home - 'pinning' ?

2023-06-12 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi, > when using guix-home, is there a way to pin a given package to its  > current version, so that it stays as it is despite 'guix pull'     > bringing new commits ? In your (home-environment (packages ...)) list, you should specify the package that has the correct version that you want. There

OBS Studio memory leak

2023-06-11 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi Guixers, For some reason when I use the obs package I quickly leak memory until my system runs out completely, and I have to reboot to resolve it. I had obs-wlrobs, but removing it made no difference. I am able to use the most recent release through Flatpak / Flathub, but ideally I could use th

Re: Adding PolicyKit actions

2023-05-31 Thread Robby Zambito
Robby Zambito writes: > ``` > (service polkit-service-type >(polkit-configuration > (actions (list > (plain-file "org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy" >" >\"-//freede

Re: Adding PolicyKit actions

2023-05-29 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi Felix, > Are you using %desktop-services? I am not. I only use %base-services instead. %desktop-services also contains PulseAudio, which conflicts with my usage of PipeWire, so I've added things from %desktop-services as I've needed them. Thanks, Robby

Adding PolicyKit actions

2023-05-29 Thread Robby Zambito
Hello, The root issue I am trying to solve right now is allowing USB redirection to virtual machines. I've tracked down a promising solution here: https://serverfault.com/a/1073230 which involves adding a new PolicyKit action for low level USB access. Digging into the Guix source I was able to fin

Re: Cannot run virt-manager as my user

2023-05-29 Thread Robby Zambito
David Conner writes: > I have a similar libvirtd service configuration on my system, but I've > only used libvirt a handful of times. Do you want access to the user's > libvert socket? I have no strong preference towards using a user-specific libvirt socket versus the system libvirt socket, as

Re: Cannot run virt-manager as my user

2023-05-29 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi, Ruijie Yu writes: > Does it work on a new tty, or if you explicitly run `sg libvirt …`? If > so, the only thing you need is a new terminal window with you on the > libvirt group. If that doesn’t work, try rebooting as well. I had rebooted several times before writing this email, however I

Cannot run virt-manager as my user

2023-05-28 Thread Robby Zambito
Hi, I am trying to set up virt-manager on my system in order to set up some virtual machines. I added the libvirtd service to my system by adding the following service to my system configuration: ``` (service libvirt-service-type) ``` and I've added myself to the libvirt group. I can see the se

Re: No ethernet service during install

2021-08-01 Thread Robby Zambito
On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 05:03:13PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > That's unfortunate. Can you tell us what card it is? Ethernet (at least > gigabit and slower) is usually supported by linux-libre, so I'm curious to > know which card is missing support. lspci says that it's a Broadcom NetXtreme II

Re: No ethernet service during install

2021-08-01 Thread Robby Zambito
Hello Florian, Thanks for the reply. > Maybe (possibly) your ethernet card is not supported by Linux-libre. It seems like this is the case unfortunately :( I tried doing the installation from the shell, rather than using the graphical installation. Running `ip link set up` gave me an error that

No ethernet service during install

2021-08-01 Thread Robby Zambito
Hello, I am trying to install GNU Guix on my Dell R710 server, but during the installation I am running into this error: > No ethernet service available, please try again. I've tried rebooting, using both the stable and latest releases, and using different ethernet ports on the machine. Each tim