Re: Video narration

2019-04-20 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi everybody! These days I will be migrating my VM since I am running out of space, so sorry for the delay :/ I am testing right now. > Commit 4bd2e78b893fef5ce1f12bec895ee8234cabaf1f fixes the colors. > ffmpeg needed a different pixel format to set the chroma subsampling > correctly [1]. > > I

Guile Days in Strasbourg, France, June 19–22

2019-04-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guilers! Hello Guix! We’re organizing Guile Days at the University of Strasbourg, France, co-located with the Perl Workshop, from June 19th to 22nd: https://journeesperl.fr/jp2019/ We were kindly invited by the Perl Workshop organizers to join them and have Guile + Guix sessions, while

Re: Trouble getting 'fprintd-service-type' to work

2019-04-20 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:07:19 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: > >> Did you test this service before pushing it to master? > > I can't remember - but probably not. Sorry. > >> Does it work for you? > > It didn't work but I fixed it now with commit > 0682f084

Re: Problem with `direnv` package definition

2019-04-20 Thread Christopher Baines
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Dear Guix > > As I'm still in the process of setting up my environment, > I am not (yet) able to write and submit a patch for package `direnv`, > so I'm sending this report instead… > > As mentioned on the `direnv` homepage, "direnv is compiled into > a single static

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > mkfs.fat fatfs.img > sudo mount fatfs.img /mnt/img > sudo cp -r /mnt/efiimg/efi /mnt/img/ > Hooray! It boots! So it is indeed the filesystem hull, which is to blame. We still need to find out whether the partition entry is the culprit. So please do the experiment with

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 04:54:24PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > But… Guix’ gnu/build/vm.scm already uses mkfs.fat. Strange… > It uses mkfs.fat for creating FAT partitions, but maybe this particular EFI partition is created by grub-mkrescue? Regards, Florian

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 04:54:24PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > sudo dd if=fatfs.img of=/dev/sdc2 > sync > I can copy the same fatfs.img from Guix System 0.16.0 onto a current Guix git master installer iso and it works too.

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
It works, see end of this e-mail. On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So after these steps : > > > I wrote guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-linux.iso to my USB drive again. > > Boot gets stuck again. > > > > I did `sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc2` to zero out the EFI >

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > To kill table entry 1 after having put the Guix EFI image back into > partition 2 of the USB stick: > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=16 seek=446 of=/dev/sdc1 Of course i meant of=/dev/sdc2 The 16 bytes written to /dev/sdc1 would deface the GPT's "protective" MBR and thus make the

Problem with `direnv` package definition

2019-04-20 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Dear Guix As I'm still in the process of setting up my environment, I am not (yet) able to write and submit a patch for package `direnv`, so I'm sending this report instead… As mentioned on the `direnv` homepage, "direnv is compiled into a single static executable" [1]. As I understand it, this m

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ... and if the erasure of the partition table entry helps, would it then also help if that entry's partition does not start at LBA 0 ? Change bytes 446 (dec) to 461 (dec) from (in hex): 80 00 01 00 01 01 12 4f 00 00 00 00 40 0b 00 00 to 80 00 02 00 01 01 12 4f 01

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-20 Thread Félicien Pillot
Le Sat, 20 Apr 2019 12:39:57 +0200, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" a écrit : > lspci reports my card as Radeon R7 240/340. According to Wikipedia > this GPU was released in 2013. Xorg attempted to load the radeon > driver and not amdgpu. > > Regards, > Florian I also have a Radeon R7 240/340. l

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i now look at the FAT filesystem images of Debian Live 9 and Guix 0.16.0: Guix: - There is an MBR partition table in the image file: DeviceBoot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /mnt/iso/efi.img1 *0 28792880 1.4M 1 FAT12 - Program "file" says: DOS/MBR b

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > I wonder, what kind of FAT is the EFI partition using? Could it be > the wrong kind of FAT? I got a mail from a bystander, Ady Ady whom i know from SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX mailing list. He proposes the experiment to exchange the whole EFI partition of the Guix ISO by the one

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
This is interesting. I presume if you add modprobe.blacklist=radeon to the kernel commandline, your system is degraded, e.g. the resolution is lower? The installer probably would have a lower resolution, too, when booting it with modprobe.blacklist=radeon? Or maybe the radeon kernel module is no

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I wrote guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-linux.iso to my USB drive and mounted it. I am trying to make the boot not get stuck. I replaced efi/boot/bootx64.efi by Debian’s bootx64.efi. Still stuck. I deleted efi/boot/bootx64.efi. Still stuck. I changed the EFI partition’s GPT type code with gdisk

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > So basically GNU/Linux distros in general fail to work on machines with > these GPUs? > The radeon driver requires nonfree firmware. This is the core issue which is not going to get fixed anytime soon. There appear to be partial

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> OK, so that’s suboptimal, but do you still consider it usable >> nonetheless? >> > > Yes, the installer is usable. Its just when using Manual partitioning > that the message > > You

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 07:11:17PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > The important remaining issue is that Xorg does not start on this > computer. Neither the radeon nor fbdev and not even vesa works, for > whatever reason. fbdev apparently is not supported. VESA might be a > fixable bu