Re: WebRTC screen sharing under Sway in Guix-packaged browsers

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > Perhaps you could instead record the camera in obs, and share obs as a > virtual v4l2 camera with jitsi. ... which would require loading the v4l2loopback module like (operating-system ... (kernel-loadable-modules (list v4l2loopb

Re: WebRTC screen sharing under Sway in Guix-packaged browsers

Perhaps you could instead record the camera in obs, and share obs as a virtual v4l2 camera with jitsi. Regards, Florian

Re: switching layout in tty

Hello Roman. > I used the graphical install for the system installation and initially > left the default Alt+Shift to switch the layout. This worked fine > during the installation. > > However, now I have to press it multiple times to switch from English > to another language. Finally, after swit

Re: Compiling guix git repo fails on "guix.ru.texi"

Hello Ethan. Likely doc/guix.ru.texi really contains question marks where Cyrillic characters should be. I have seen this error before, but do not remember what fixed it. Is the locale properly set? What does the `locale` command print? You could run `git clean -dfx` in the guix source directo

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

jbra...@dismail.de writes: > Nope. I'm using 64 bit. :) I did delete old package profiles and system > configurations followed by a guix gc. > > Lots of stuff got deleted. Maybe that'll help. > guix gc “should” not make a difference, except sometimes software like Icecat addons do embed stor

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

Hello Joshua. Joshua Branson writes: > I just tried to run guix system reconfigure bare-bone-sway.scm, and this > is some of the output that I got. It's a little too much to paste. It > seems like it's trying to build from source a ton of rust stuff. I get > the same issue if I try to install sim

Re: Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails

Hello David. David Lecompte via writes: > […] > I created the following partitions and fs (DOS partition table): > /dev/sdf1: 1G formatted as ext4, for /boot, marked as bootable > /dev/sdf2: extended partition > /dev/sdf5: 922G formatted as btrfs, for / > /dev/sdf6: 8G, for swap > […] > (bootlo

Re: copyright licence

Hello Gottfried. What you describe is a very restrictive license, unlike Creative Commons. Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide’s non-restrictive, free culture stance is not required in GNU, but non-free art is too much hassle for most of us. You are okay with playback and modification of your song (which

Re: No 'guix pull' substitutes for foreign distros?

Hello all, the missing substitutes in Debian can be worked around; Nigko and I discussed in bug#70954 by editing /etc/systemd/services/multi-user.target.wants/guix-daemon.service this way: Nigko Yerden writes: : > Hello Florian, >

Re: brcmfmac

Hello, Andrew Wong writes: > The Guix installer does not recognize the Broadcom BCM43602 card used > in the MacBook Pro 12,1 as compatible with free software (issuing a > warning), despite this card being compatible with the free brcmfmac > driver says BCM43602

Re: Difference between guix/build and guix/build-system

Hi, Vasilii Smirnov writes: > Oh, nice, I completely missed that page. Thanks! Although it would be > nice if it went into more detail... Like, I see that both "build" and > "build-system" parts define the "${name}-build" function > (e.g. cmake-build). But the definitions are different. > > The w

Re: Difference between guix/build and guix/build-system

Hello Vasilii. In addition to Hartmut’s recommendation to imitate, there also is a manual section; run info "(guix)Source Tree Structure" or visit https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Source-Tree-Structure.html explaining what guix/build/…-build-system are: (guix build gnu-build-sy

Re: running guix services on Guix on foreign distributions

Hello Andy. I guess you are speaking of Guix Home ? We cannot advertise it at the top of the homepage yet, since it was still experimental at the time of the last release (1.4.0) and is only stable after first doing a “gui

Re: simple song named "Guix"

gfp writes: > If somebody has proposals to chance the text to a more appropriate one, > he can do that. > I would be happy about it, as I wrote, I am not an English speaker and > I don’t know the history of Guix. You do appropriately present one view of Guix. There are various views and ethics a

Re: Gottfried Preihs' »"Guix" song«

Thank you Gottfried, I really like your song; saved it to my Music directory. :) The lyrics capture influential concepts to Guix like science. That not everything is easy in Guix and new users have to climb a ladder is partially a bug to be worked on, but also a consequence of taking more serious

Re: nss-certs

gfp writes: > Hi, > > thanks for explanation. :) > I also thank you very much for the translating of the "Scheme Primer" > into German language. > > I would not be able to understand it properly in English language. > > Gottfried Thank you so much for making me happy, even if upstream author Ch

Re: nss-certs

Hello Gottfried, gfp writes: > This is in my config.scm: > > (packages > (append > (list (specification->package "nss-certs")) > %base-packages)) > > > What should it look like now? > > Do I have to delete everything? > > thanks for help > > Gottfried This is

Re: Replication question

Hello Richard; yours is a good answer. Let me add: Richard Sent writes: > 1. Guix time-machine. e.g. > guix time-machine --commit=XXX -- package -m manifest.scm > > a. This will create a profile containing the exact packages at that > moment in time, including A@old. > > b. All pa

Re: Server installation is incompatible with guix home

Hello MSavoritias. MSavoritias writes: > is checking if the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR exists. which according to the > manual if this is supposed to go away you need to: > > *Note:* Make sure the operating system has elogind, systemd, or a > similar mechanism to create the XDG run-time directory and has t

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

Andreas Enge writes: > I have a virtual machine that essentially runs an nginx instance and had > 1GB of memory. This was not enough to do a "guix pull". I asked the people > who provide the machine to me to ramp up to 2GB, but this was still not > enough. Now I dare not ask for more, as I already

Re: How to fix the deletion of ~/.guix-profile on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS?

Hello Rodrigo, in general, to be on the safe side, after `guix pull`, you can open a new shell/terminal so the new guix actually gets used. This probably is no longer necessary or at least `guix pull` tells you to run `hash guix`, but I believe it is what has happened here. Regards, Florian

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

Hi there. Some corrections. Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:34:18 +0100 > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: >> Hello, what you intend does sound very interesting. As for “guix >> time-machine”, I do not see the problem [...] >

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

Hello, what you intend does sound very interesting. As for “guix time-machine”, I do not see the problem: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > But then we would still like to somehow make guix time-machine > --commit= work automatically, so we need to somehow fetch that > revision, and if possible w

Re: Stuck at boot on fresh install

You further could try editing the Guix configuration file in the installer to get another kernel such as: (use-package-modules linux) (operating-system … (kernel linux-libre-4.19) …) Further, I believe there are other X200 users, but I cannot find the thread on yhetil.org. Is it perhaps n

Re: Stuck at boot on fresh install

Hello David, Could you try editing the GRUB boot options (press E during GRUB) and append to the linux boot line: nomodeset This would rule out graphics driver problems. However, I also know a PC where GRUB sometimes (only sometimes) just gets stuck and the PC needs a restart and it works the n

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

Hello. Sorry for not being precise. Invoking guix build or guix shell is fine in my opinion, but “apt-get install” is not. Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > Here running 'guix build' commands automatically makes sense and as I > understand many people sharing their Guix configurations do that, a

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

Hello Denis. I believe automatically invoking package managers for users does not give users control. Telling them what to run, yes, but running the commands for them does not seem like good practice, if it can be avoided. If I were a user, I would mostly like to understand. In particular, the

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

P.S. There also is the code for https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62584#0 which is not using a Shepherd service. Regards, Florian

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

Hi Owen. "Owen T. Heisler" writes: > (shepherd-service (auto-start? #f) > (documentation "Say hello.") > (one-shot? #t) > (provision '(say-hello-service)) > (respawn? #f) > (start #~(lambda () >

Re: cannot run recent kodi [was: substitute server not used]

Indeed apparently it works for my VLC when I specify any non-existent driver. Anyway. You could: Try export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=crocus If it does not work, open a bug by writing a mail to bug-g...@gnu.org Of course the driver must be free by FSDG, but I believe this is not the issue h

Re: cannot run recent kodi [was: substitute server not used]

Marco van Hulten writes: > I told kodi to use the the driver by exporting > > export > MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=../../../m59c9hj9d4n65maimbpmx2xq56d2mvqs-mesa-20.2.4/lib/dri/i915 As a blind guess, since a few generations, for VLC I need to use: export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 Re

Re: documentation on copyright headers?

Simon Tournier writes: > In the past, the project had been very permissive, where even 2 lines > only modifying the version and checksum fields lead to hold a Copyright > on such modification. In practice, I agree. Changing the version and checksum of 100 packages likely does not add up and does

Re: documentation on copyright headers?

Hello. Felix Lechner via writes: > For an active project like Guix, I personally tend not to add copyright > notices unless I create a new file or unless my contribution appears so > significant that another party would have to expend some effort in order > to recreate it. > > Either way, it's be

Re: GuixSD on T440p won't boot or install properly / missing free software ... nouveau ...

Hi Kodcu. Ohh you had written that the problems are at the GRUB stage before Linux … 1. A web search leads to urgent advice to install firmware updates on T440p before installing any Linux distro. However, probably Vikings did this already. 2. On my father’s old PC, GRUB does get stuck sometime

Re: GuixSD on T440p won't boot or install properly / missing free software ... nouveau ...

Hello Kodcu. According to h-node.org, the ThinkPad T440p uses Intel graphics and not Nvidia/nouveau. Graphics are claimed to work with the libre kernel. I presume you can switch to a TTY by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 at least after booting with nomodeset. If graphics actually do not work and you do w

Re: Guix on Macintosh?

a regular VM is easier to deal with. Regards, Florian > > -Yasu > > On 6/23/23 19:24, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> Yasuaki Kudo writes: >>> Docker for MacOS does seem to run Linux containers. >> Running Guix inside a Docker container seems like a very

Re: Guix on Macintosh?

Yasuaki Kudo writes: > Docker for MacOS does seem to run Linux containers. Running Guix inside a Docker container seems like a very peculiar foreign distro. In your words, Yasuaki, it is convoluted. I believe Docker is not intended to be used in this way. Mostly Docker and Guix are alternative

Re: Guix on Macintosh?

Hello Yasuaki, on a friend’s ARM Macbook, Guix runs fine after installing a QEMU VM (for which we used a user interface named UTM) with the iso file from Ubuntu desktop for ARM generic, and then running the usual Guix install script for installation on a foreign desktop. (Although QEMU did get st

Re: Can Guix channels be non-GPL?

Parnikkapore writes: > it's basically > impossible for a Guix channel to have any license other than GPLv3 or > GPLv3+. With further thought: Actually you can use LGPL or anything that is GPL-compatible. If someone manages to use your Guix channel in a way that does not involve Guix, they are no

Re: Can Guix channels be non-GPL?

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > still it is not clear if copyright can even apply if we only link. Sorry bad typo. I meant still it is not clear if copyright can even apply if we don’t link. I’m playing devil’s advocate here though. Just use GPL. Regards, Florian

Re: Can Guix channels be non-GPL?

Saku Laesvuori writes: > Libgit2 defines an exception that it may be linked against programs > under any license, Thank you, GNU Guix’ decisions make more sense now. Should have checked the license comment in “guix edit libgit2”. So that argument is gone; still it is not clear if copyright can

Re: Can Guix channels be non-GPL?

Hi Parnikkapore! One view is that GPL does not propagate, because the Guile language does not link. If Guix’ GPL would propagate, then the GPL2 of libgit2 would propagate to Guix. Regards, Florian

Re: Bordeaux "substitution failed"

Felix Lechner via writes: > 2. &message: > "https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/zstd/mxxszppxdv8nysq3in7f54xfn46y4sdw-xfce4-panel-4.18.3.tar.xz: > HTTP download failed: 404 (\"Not Found\")" I just got the same error. If you pass --substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org then bordeaux gets ignor

Re: to save my Guix System installation

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > sudo mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt P.S. Note that the path to the other disk will not be sdx. Adjust this to the name of the other disk. Needless to say, it is very important the mount command does not fail. Regards, Florian

Re: to save my Guix System installation

Hi all, Maxim Cournoyer writes: > For moving Guix itself, you could copy its root file system > using 'cp -a', or opt to reinstall from your config.scm as already > mentioned up-thread. I strongly suggest the reinstall option. Copying all with “cp -a” works, but is a waste. sudo mount /dev/sdx

Re: to save my Guix System installation

Hi Gottfried, yes, making a backup is good. You will want to backup the Guix configuration files and your data. So probably this means you should copy /etc/config.scm and the files in your home directory. You could plug in an ext4-formatted external disk and copy the files with the “cp -a” comm

Re: cookbook in german language

Hello Gottfried. If I understand correctly, unreadable overlong lines is an issue with the PDF version of the cookbook in any language. The issue is not there if you select the HTML manual. On first sight, it looks like complicated TeX tricks are needed to fix this. I do not know. Could you op

Re: Thinkpad x60s -Guix System nach der Installation

Hallo Joseph. (English below.) Schön, dass Du Guix System ausprobierst. :) Es ist normal, dass wenig vorinstalliert ist. Nachdem Du etwas im Terminal installiert hast wie „guix install ri-li“, kannst Du es über das Terminal starten oder über das Menü „Anwendungen“ von Xfce oben links, wo es auc

Re: die Webseite für "Einstieg in Guix" ist nicht zu finden.

Hallo Gottfried, thank you again. The fixed manual links will show up online with the next update to the Guix package in a few days or weeks. Regards, Florian

Re: die Webseite für "Einstieg in Guix" ist nicht zu finden.

Hello Gottfried. Thank you for the report. The issue is that the automatic translation of chapter references and section references gets applied, even though the chapter/section is not actually part of the Guix manual. This is because in the Guix source code, in the file guix/build/po.scm the xr

Re: GNU Guix 1.4.0rc1 available for testing!

Hello Svante, Svante Signell writes: > What about hurd? Hurd can be used with QEMU on Linux-based Guix System; see the childhurd section in the manual. However, I tried and somewhat failed to run on my real hardware (a Beebox mini PC): When booting, the Hurd runs an rc script which freezes. I

Re: Guix System Latest: Installation report

Hi Luis, sorry for the late response; I’m somewhat behind on my mail. Luis Felipe writes: > Personally, I think the Latest should be prescribed somehow. Maybe add > some hints to make people be sure that that one is the recommended > installer? I don't know... At

Re: translation programm

Gottfried writes: > I tried to install gtranslator, which failed because there are > conflicting dependencies with Catfish. Sorry to say: As Luis Felipe wrote, I had completely misunderstood what you meant by translation program. gtranslator is of no use to you, because it is a program for manua

Re: translation programm

Hello, Francis writes: > Is there a translation programm in Guix, you can use for offline > translation? If you want to edit translation files in .po file format (as used by Guix), I prefer that gets mentioned in the Guix manual. Alternatively there exis

Re: German language mistake in the answer if I do a : guix package --upgrade --dry-run

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Gottfried writes: >> "Die folgenden Pakete würden aktualisiert:" >> >> It should be: >> >> "Die folgenden Pakete würden aktualisiert werden:" >> >> It's missing one word at the end: "werden". > > Both of these sentences are correct here, though the second one is more > co

Re: Kernel module build error with system image cross-build

Frank Terbeck writes: > pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de wrote: >> HDMI stays black, but I can’t >> find the cables for my UART adapter, so I cannot properly test. I think > > Ah, so you tried, nice! I couldn't yet… Maybe this weekend. Yes, although by now I noticed HDMI stays black for my Beaglebone

Re: Kernel module build error with system image cross-build

Hello Frank, sorry for the late reply. HDMI stays black, but I can’t find the cables for my UART adapter, so I cannot properly test. I think you are doing it right, but if what used to work does not, perhaps an easier way would be to copy the rock64.scm image, and adapt that to use the Beaglebone

Re: How to install OBS plugins and scripts?

Ekaitz Zarraga writes: > Does anyone have OBS plugins? Not me, but maybe it helps that Andrew Tropin wrote in that you can use OBS_PLUGINS_DATA_PATH and OBS_PLUGINS_PATH and made obs plugins that are shipped with guix use tho

Re: Set up cgit with git-http-backend properly

Hello Simon. Simon Streit writes: > After > modifying > > (string-append "~ /" (string-trim-both uri-path #\/) "(/.*)") > > to > > (string-append "~ " (string-trim-both uri-path #\/) "(/.*)") > > serving and cloning from https://git.example.com/repo(.git) works now. > But it doesn't when cgit is

Re: Set up cgit with git-http-backend properly

Hi Simon, what did you base your setup on? Simon Streit writes: > (locations > (list >(git-http-nginx-location-configuration > (git-http-configuration (uri-path "/"))) The guix repo has in file gnu/tests/version-control.scm the setting (locations (list (git-http-n

Re: Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 01:27:51PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Hello David. > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 12:48:01PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > > (operating-system > > (host-name "albert") > > (timezone "Europe/Paris") > >

Re: The service trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails

Hello David. All looks good. On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 05:11:45PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > shepherd: Service term-console could not be started. > To complete update, run "herd restart SERVICE" to stop, update and > restart all services that were not restarted automatically. > Run "herd status

Re: Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails

Hello David. On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 12:48:01PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > (operating-system > (host-name "albert") > (timezone "Europe/Paris") > (locale "fr_FR.utf8") > > (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "fr")) > (bootloader (bootloader-configuration > (bootloader

Re: The live usb is stuck on "Welcome to GRUB!"

Hello Paul. On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 04:14:52PM +, Paul Iannetta via wrote: > I seem unable to make GRUB work and would like to know whether it is > possible to generate an image which would use extlinux/syslinux > instead. When creating an iso9660 image, Guix always uses grub-mkrescue to buil

Re: Guix Channel News Does not work on Foreign Distros for Custom Channels (ignoring Debian)

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 02:01:55AM -0400, jgart wrote: > I still do not get any news for the custom channel when I run `guix pull > --list-generations`. > > On Debian it works but on Void Linux I must have something not set up that I > can't pin point at the moment. News entries for commits bef

Re: Guix Channel News Does not work on Foreign Distros for Custom Channels (ignoring Debian)

Hi jgart. Now that I think about it -- there are cases when the news simply won’t be displayed, namely if the commit referred to in the news entry was already present in the old commit. Could this be the case, that the news file refers to a commit you already had before pulling? Then the only w

Re: Guix Channel News Does not work on Foreign Distros for Custom Channels (ignoring Debian)

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:05:41PM -0400, jgart wrote: > On void linux, I don't see channel news for a custom channel. > > How do you suggest I debug this? Assuming you have previously pulled a channel version before the commit of the news entry and then pull a channel version after, the news sho

Re: blacklisting iwlwifi and reconfiguring guixsd from another distribution (manjaro)

Hello crodges. On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 09:01:39PM -0700, crodges wrote: > I mounted guixsd partition from manjaro and added the lines to blacklist > iwlwifi. But after that ... how can I reconfigure the system from manjaro, > reboot and use guix? I thought maybe I can try to use chroot somehow,

Re: add a substitute server and thoughts for improvement

Hello Gottfried. On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:50:31AM +, Gottfried wrote: > > Would somebody be so kind and show me this part of his /etc/config.scm > > file in order to know where and what I should put there, so that I can > > add "bordeaus-guix.gnu.org as a substitute serve? > > I checked

Re: Latam keyboard layout changed, how can I get the old one back?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:40:04PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > I think you could also use an inferior to install xkeyboard-config > from an older Guix revision: Sorry I think this will not work. The problem is that the GNOME packages reference the xkeyboard-config of the current guix. T

Re: Latam keyboard layout changed, how can I get the old one back?

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 04:55:11PM +, Luis Felipe wrote: > I found a bug report upstream that may be related to this: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/267 > . I guess there’s no way around `info "(guix) Using a Custom Guix Channel"` with (url "/home

Re: Latam keyboard layout changed, how can I get the old one back?

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:00:55PM +, Luis Felipe wrote: > I'm currently using Guix System (guix ab98b51), and noticed that I > can't type less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs anymore, even > though I didn't change the keyboard-layout in my system definition > (or anywhere else): Perhaps a

Re: Create new EFI guixSD installaton from existing bios guixsd installation

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 01:40:19AM +0100, Martin Castillo wrote: > Or can you only create an EFI system installation when you're already > running on one? Sadly yes, because for EFI the boot information is not stored on disk but on the motherboard NVRAM. You need to boot with EFI to access it. Ex

Re: guix pull

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:28:08PM +, Gottfried wrote: > > But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far as I > > understand it, the root account would not get security updates? > > Correct. > > > What sh

Re: Drucker - aqbanking - mc

Hallo Gottfried, ich kann leider nicht viel dazu sagen, aber On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:21:40PM +, Gottfried wrote: > ich habe hplip installiert um einen Drucker zu verwenden. > > In den Anwendungen erscheint ein Symbol hp aber ich kann es nicht öffnen. Es > tut sich nichts wenn ich es öffne

Re: repair broken boot record

Thank you Thomas for the post-mortem. > In the end, I reinstallled Guix from scratch […] I couldn't get the > chroot approach to work properly (maybe with more time, ...). Though there is little difference betweem reconfigure and reinstall if the chroot is set up properly, I should better have ad

Re: guix as a hypervisor

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 01:07:57AM +0100, Adam Kandur via wrote: > Hi guix! > What is the best way to run a vm on a guix host which will be available to > other members of a local network? You can set up dnsmasq for NetworkManager on the host. For Guix System, see: info "(guix)Networking Servic

Re: getting crazy with arm build

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 11:53:45PM +0100, Andreas Bauer wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I am having a hard time getting guix os running on a rock-pro (arm) board. For other readers, this thread is very similar to . > So this is what I

Re: Install Guix System in a logical volume

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 09:15:05PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > Can I install Guix System with the whole root file system (including > /boot) in a new logical volume that I create in the same volume group? I shouldn’t answer in a hurry. As of November 2021, the GNU Guix repo contains a file gnu

Re: Install Guix System in a logical volume

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 09:15:05PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > Can I install Guix System with the whole root file system (including > /boot) in a new logical volume that I create in the same volume group? P.S. No, you would need to adapt the Guix configuration so it does not install the bootloa

Re: Install Guix System in a logical volume

Hello David. On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 09:15:05PM +, David Lecompte wrote: > Also, I installed Grub on the MBR via Debian. Can I expect Grub > installed by Debian to see Guix and add an entry in the boot menu for > it? > > David. No, instead you would chainload from Debian’s GRUB the Guix Syst

Re: Best base system for Guix

Hello Alexander. On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:21:38PM +0100, Alexander Asteroth wrote: > I'm not using a predifined layout from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols but > some self-defined variant based on us. This means I have to edit a file > under /usr/share but that was the way it was done since I work wi

Re: Best base system for Guix

Hello Alexander. I’m glad booting works. On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Alexander Asteroth wrote: > I created a second EFI partition for > the guix grub (to be sure it doesn't make my Debian installation > unbootable) Debian and Guix can share an EFI system partition, otherwise I’m no

Re: Best base system for Guix

Hello Alexander. On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 06:48:37PM +0100, Alexander Asteroth wrote: > Ok, you all convinced me to give Guix a third try (yes I already gave up > twice). The name of the operating system distribution that can be installed with the Guix package manager is Guix System. > Today I i

Re: No sound - Intel HDA SOF driver and Nvidia HDMI

You could set a different Linux-libre kernel version in your operating system declaration, e.g. (kernel (@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-5.10)) or (kernel (@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-5.4)). If you don’t mind recompiling your kernel: Searching in my /run/current-system/kernel/.config r

Re: No sound - Intel HDA SOF driver and Nvidia HDMI

Hello Mameka, On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:22:49PM +, Mameka wrote: > (kernel-arguments > '("modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,snd_hda_intel,snd-hda-intel")) > [...] > (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video" "libvirt" "kvm"))) > [...] This seems correct. > Unfortunately this do

Re: repair broken boot record

On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > On 2021-10-05 13:04, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > > > In one of the final > > > steps, where guix tries to install the

Re: repair broken boot record

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > Hello Florian, > > thank you for your help. I managed to chroot into my system, and re-run > 'guix system reconfigure' (very useful mailing list discussion on chrooting, > I also vote for including it in documentation :) ). I’m

Re: repair broken boot record

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:43:18AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > Hello guix-help, > > my system does not boot anymore after a guix pull and system reconfigure > (which did show a warning, see below). It does not even enter the GRUB > stage, I get a "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" instea

Re: Udev Rule Not Triggered

Glad you got it to work. From the udev man page I don’t understand how a udev rule that only sets the MODE could break, it is puzzling. On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 05:39:13PM -0400, Antwane Mason wrote: > I hope this information can save someone else > some headaches in the future. Thank you for des

Re: Udev Rule Not Triggered

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 11:44:50AM -0400, Antwane Mason wrote: > I was able to at least confirm that the rule exists on the system despite > not being run. I used "sudo herd rules udev" to find the store path where > udev rules were and confirmed that 49-onlykey.rules is in lib/udev/rules.d. > Stil

Re: Udev Rule Not Triggered

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:28:08PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > (string-append > > "ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", " > >"ATTR{product}==\"Example\", " > >

Re: Udev Rule Not Triggered

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 10:01:00AM -0400, Antwane Mason wrote: > > should use string-join instead of string-append > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I know that use of string-append is correct > based on example code from > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Base-Services.html. > […] >

Re: Udev Rule Not Triggered

Hello Antwane! I am not really familiar with udev rules, but perhaps this On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 09:39:26AM -0400, Antwane Mason wrote: > (define %onlykey-udev-rule > (udev-rule >"49-onlykey.rules" >(string-append "ATTRS{idVendor}==\"1d50\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"60fc\", > ENV{ID_MM_DEVI

Re: No ethernet service during install

Hello Robby, On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 10:31:37AM -0400, Robby Zambito wrote: > 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. Maybe (possibly) your ethernet card is not supp

Re: Problems with network in installation

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:38:26AM +0100, chalamov--- via wrote: > Hello, > > I can not connect to wi-fi during the installation of the Gnu Guix. I don't > know what to do. > Could you help me? > > Greetings, > Maria Sadly many (all?) modern Wi-fi devices have no support for the Linux-libre ker

Re: Sprachausgabe in GNU Guix

Hallo, On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 01:30:18PM +0100, Claus Stenzel wrote: > Enthält die Distribution GNU Guix auch ein Bildschirmleseprogramm, > womöglich sogar "Orca" oder ein anderes? Oder muß man es extra installieren. In der GNOME-Umgebung wird Orca in der Voreinstellung mitinstalliert. Man kann,

Re: Can Guix support Zen 2/AMD Ryzen?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:31:47AM +, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > I've also run into that booting issue. I think there is a way to > disable fancy graphics rendering during the installer, which is what > I had to do, to get guix to run on my AMD APU a few years ago. > Maybe someone here can po

Re: New 1.2 installation freezing

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 04:49:03PM -0500, vikram sai balaji ulaganathan wrote: > Hi Guix help, > I just installed the latest version and when it booted up, it starts and > loads kernel but it freezes and the last dmesg I see is udevd no sender > credentials received, message ignored. In the GRUB b

Re: Touchpad not working on Acer Aspire One laptop

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:44:40AM -0500, Joshua Branson wrote: > > Hey Barnabas! (awesome name by the way!) > > Is your touchpad working at all? Can you move a mouse with your > touchpad? I had an issue on my old macbook, where my mouse would only > move up and down. When I started using swa

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