Re: Installing the system from another distro

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> 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.
>>> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" told me that the module for my videocard ("sis")
>>> wasn't loaded.  I looked at (gnu services xorg) and found that not all
>>> available "xf86-video-…" modules are placed at "xserver.conf".  Is there
>>> a reason for that?
>>
>> No reason!  Please do add it.
>
> I checked that adding xf86-video-sis fixes the resolution problem.  But
> did you mean to add just xf86-video-sis (a trivial patch for this is
> attached) or all modules?

In theory we could add all of them by default, but ISTR that some of
them didn’t build, or are only useful for VM guests.

> I see that you added a commented line for xf86-video-modesetting, so I
> assume that adding all available modules may introduce unexpected
> issues.

xf86-video-modesetting is not currently usable due to a libdrm version
mismatch, as I just wrote to Federico.

> From 35119792b81cc7f0fbb68f096df2bd6f6727eaeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:49:58 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] services: xorg: Add 'xf86-video-sis'.
>
> * gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-start-command)[xserver.conf]: Add
>   ModulePath for 'xf86-video-sis'.

Please push.

Thanks!

Ludo’.