Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:06 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> 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 <alez...@gmail.com> > 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’.