Fwd: Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?

Oops, forgot to add mailing list to reply. Begin forwarded message: > From: Daniel Jiang > Date: April 4, 2019 at 18:08:43 CDT > To: Ludovic Courtès > Subject: Re: VM image: can we simplify its use? > > Hello, > > If this can refer to the qemu vm image available for download on the guix > w

Progress with the Guix Data Service

So, in my last email featuring the Guix Data Service [1], I focused on reviewing patches, but since then, I've been focusing on fixing some issues with the Guix Data Service itself, adding some more functionality, and making some necessary code improvements. 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/g

Re: 02/09: guix: store: Make register-items transactional, register drv outputs

Caleb Ristvedt skribis: > As we found out on IRC yesterday, https://bugs.gnu.org/15602 is causing > this to fail. If I understand correctly, the workaround involves trying > to make sure that modules that use (guix memoization) are compiled > before (guix memoization) is (and it turns out that on

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:49:35PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > I did test the patch on my hardware (kmscon with forced fbdev backend): > > * By default, kmscon is loaded, everything seems ok. > * Passing nomodeset to the kernel, kmscon hangs with a black screen, but > I'm able to switch to

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith skribis: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:11:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> I was mentioning this because it’s an experiment that Andy Wingo did >> about 15 years (?!) ago. Andy wrote the Texinfo parser that’s now part >> of Guile, and then had a Guile-GTK progr

VM image: can we simplify its use?

Hello Guix! I had criticism about the VM image: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl Namely that you have to manually set up networking, and then to manually resize the image just to be able to run ‘guix pull’, is considered inconvenient (rightly s

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

I did test the patch on my hardware (kmscon with forced fbdev backend): * By default, kmscon is loaded, everything seems ok. * Passing nomodeset to the kernel, kmscon hangs with a black screen, but I'm able to switch to other mingetty terminals. Not sure what is going wrong, but I fear it won't

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:21:32PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > One thought is that there may be other "layout engines" that could be > > used, such as those in various GUI toolkits. > > Yes, the GTK+ stacks has everything we need to display hypertext > content nicely, I believe. OK, so emb

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:11:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I find things like DOMTerm very impressive, and it’s true that > HTML/JS/CSS nowadays constitute an unequaled UI framework (to the point > that GNOME Shell is also written in JS + CSS.) > > That would be a good argument in favor of

Re: custom kernel config

Efraim Flashner writes: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:49:59PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> Thank you Efraim, this is awesome! I second this remark! It's really helpful to see how you're doing it. Thank you for taking the time to share with us! >> > tar xf $(guix build linux-libre -S) >> >

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

Hi all, Thanks for your investigation Danny. Florian and Pierre, could you try this new patch :) ? If it fails, you can also try to press 'e' in GRUB and add 'nomodeset' to the kernel command line arguments. Thanks for your help, Mathieu >From f90ea22ee4af2db11587b6195c3726f9bab9ec78 Mon Sep