Re: Any success with fingerprint scanner/fprintd for Gnome login?

2024-03-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Ben, On Sun, Mar 24 2024, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Any suggestions or thoughts on how to troubleshoot this? I do not use GNOME or fprintd but the manual page says it's a DBus service that comes with a PAM module. I am not sure that fprintd-service-type installs the PAM module, so maybe that ha

Any success with fingerprint scanner/fprintd for Gnome login?

2024-03-23 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, Has anyone had success using a fingerprint scanner for Gnome login? I'm currently on a ThinkPad X230, but did have the fingerprint scanner working on an X60 working under Trisquel about 8 years ago. I added "(service fprintd-service-type)" to my Guix System services li

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-13 Thread Gary Johnson
"resolv.conf" my-resolv.conf))) ``` Happy hacking! Gary Luigi Salamone writes: > Thanks! > > Yes, I have '(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss)' in my > /etc/config.scm. > > Now...as for the scanner: > On Parabola I need to edit the fil

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Luigi, On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:27 AM Luigi Salamone wrote: > > I need the gutenprint drivers, which are not packaged for Guix. I'd also love to have Gutenprint, but my understanding was that it is unlikely to be packaged anytime soon. If I recall correctly, Gutenprint ships many small exec

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-11 Thread Luigi Salamone
Thanks! Yes, I have '(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss)' in my /etc/config.scm. Now...as for the scanner: On Parabola I need to edit the file /etc/sane/pixma.conf (not present in Guix) to add such a line: bjnp://MyPixmaPrinter.local. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SA

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-11 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Luigi Salamone skribis: > Hi! > > My Canon Pixma MG2950 works fine on Parabola, after configuring avahi with > nss-mdns. But on Guix I can't find neither the printer nor the scanner. > Tried with "system-config-printer" and via "lpinfo". What can I

Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-11 Thread Luigi Salamone
Hi! My Canon Pixma MG2950 works fine on Parabola, after configuring avahi with nss-mdns. But on Guix I can't find neither the printer nor the scanner. Tried with "system-config-printer" and via "lpinfo". What can I do? Here the salient lines of my /etc/config.scm: ...

Scanner

2022-10-01 Thread Gottfried
Hi Guixers, I installed "Trisquel 10" on a second laptop and the printer (doesn't show up) but works, and also scanning works with my "HP Officejet J4680 All in one" Printer/Scanner. On my main laptop with Guix System with the same HP Printer/Scanner printing wor

Re: Re Scanner

2022-08-20 Thread (
On Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 2:42 PM BST, ( wrote: > (Unless there's a bug with the package.) ((Which is highly unlikely if tests are enabled for the package.)) -- (

Re: Re Scanner

2022-08-20 Thread (
On Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 2:41 PM BST, ( wrote: > Guix is not like Arch; you don't need to install libraries to make a > program work. (Unless there's a bug with the package.) -- (

Re: Re Scanner

2022-08-20 Thread (
Hi Gottfried :) On Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 2:28 PM BST, Gottfried wrote: > in Arch Linux I read, that a HP Printer needs the programm > "python-pillow" so that the scanner will work. Guix is not like Arch; you don't need to install libraries to make a program work. > When

Re Scanner

2022-08-20 Thread Gottfried
- Hi Guixers, for your information: in Arch Linux I read, that a HP Printer needs the programm "python-pillow" so that the scanner will work. I installed it, but it didn't help. Somebody else in Arch Linux said that HP Printer/Scanner will give trouble again and again, so

Re: Scanner

2022-04-11 Thread raingloom
On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:19:27 + Gottfried wrote: > Hi, > I could not install a Scanner in Guix, that's why I installed a > second Linux distro: GNUinOS on a second hard disk. > > In GnuinOS my HP Printer was working, I could print, but I couldn't > scan in the be

Scanner

2022-04-10 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I could not install a Scanner in Guix, that's why I installed a second Linux distro: GNUinOS on a second hard disk. In GnuinOS my HP Printer was working, I could print, but I couldn't scan in the beginning. So I installed "hplip" and when in my applications the &quo

Scanner

2022-02-25 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I have on the same notebook guix and ubuntu installed. In ubuntu you can scan. My simple scanning program finds the hp printer/scanner and I can scan. When starting guix, it says that free firmware is missing. Can it be that the firmware is responsible for it, and that's why I

scanner

2022-02-23 Thread Gottfried
Hi, After installing a scanner in my profile When opening my document scanner it says: no scanner is found. Please check if your scanner is switched on and attached. If I open the xsane scanning programm it says: no devices available even though I connected my hp printer and scanner and

scanner

2022-02-22 Thread Gottfried
(sane-service-type _ => sane-backends and running: sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm I still can´t use a scanner. My 3 programs: hp device manager, scanner and xsane don´t start. My system doesn´t find a scanner, even though I connected and started my prin

Re: scanner

2022-02-21 Thread Jay Sulzberger
Dear Gottfried , I use an editor which allows me to check whether a bit of text is a well formed sexp, that is, a well formed Lisp expression. I do not have Guile on the machine I am writing this on, but I am writing using Emacs. Here is a syntactically, well, at the level of sexps, well formed

scanner

2022-02-21 Thread Gottfried
Am 20.02.22 um 20:57 schrieb SeerLite: On 2/20/22 13:25, Gottfried wrote: Hi, Below is my config.scm: it has 60 lines (if the 61:1 refers to a line???) after: sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm this message: /etc/config.scm:61:1: schließende Klammer fehlt  (in English closing brac

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-20 Thread SeerLite
On 2/20/22 13:25, Gottfried wrote: Hi, Below is my config.scm: it has 60 lines (if the 61:1 refers to a line???) after: sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm this message: /etc/config.scm:61:1: schließende Klammer fehlt  (in English closing bracket is missing) I don`t know where is

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-20 Thread Gottfried
;; This is an operating system configuration generated ;; by the graphical installer. (use-modules (gnu)) (use-package-modules cups scanner) (use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg) (operating-system (locale "de_DE.utf8") (timezone "Europe/Berlin") (keybo

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-20 Thread Gottfried
-type _ => sane-backends)) Additionally, you have to import the right module that contains the sane-backends package. So you'll have to add "scanner" to your use-package-modules line at the top. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - a

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-20 Thread SeerLite
: (modify-services %desktop-services (sane-service-type _ => sane-backends)) Additionally, you have to import the right module that contains the sane-backends package. So you'll have to add "scanner" to your use-package-modules line at the top.

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-20 Thread Gottfried
i") (device (uuid "BB77-FE3B" 'fat32)) (type "vfat")) (file-system (mount-point "/") (device (uuid "4fb0ed7c-61ab-45eb-be0b-ff527b320e6d" 'ext4))

Re: printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-19 Thread Gary Johnson
Gottfried writes: > Next step: > How can I install a scanner, because my printer can also scan. > I installed a scanning program: "simple scan" "xsane" "gimp" in > hoping to be able to scan. But it doesn't. Scanning is also a service in Guix, so y

printer installed, now scanner ?

2022-02-18 Thread Gottfried
scanning also. Next step: How can I install a scanner, because my printer can also scan. I installed a scanning program: "simple scan" "xsane" "gimp" in hoping to be able to scan. But it doesn't. in http://localhost:631 there is no possibility to add a scann

Configuring SANE to use a scanner on the network

2021-12-17 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Dear Guix, I'm trying to use a network scanner, but I have no clue how to configure SANE! There is not much about the network configuration in the documentation [1]. [1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Desktop-Services.html#Desktop-Services The thing that is really frustr

Re: Scanner is only detected with root user, printer cannot be added through GNOME

2021-03-05 Thread Jelle Licht
divoplade writes: > I am currently in the following supplementary-groups: > > '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video" "lpadmin" "scanner") > > Is it not enough? I would not consider myself a master of the arcane arts (t

Scanner is only detected with root user, printer cannot be added through GNOME

2021-03-05 Thread divoplade
Dear guix, When running simple-scan, $ LANG=C simple-scan I get a dialog showing "No scanners detected". However, when I run the same with sudo, $ LANG=C sudo simple-scan I don’t get the icons, but the scanner is detected and usable. I am currently in the following supplement

Re: Scanner / SANE driver support

2020-05-15 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
;---cut here---end--->8--- The value of the service is a single package, not a list of packages. So how does one add support for other scanner? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Scanner / SANE driver support

2020-04-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
sirgazil writes: > But the scanner works like this only recently. Before, I had to follow these > instructions: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38064#11 As far as I understand, we now have a sane-service-type as part of the %desktop-services, so this should work out of t

Re: Scanner / SANE driver support

2020-04-19 Thread sirgazil
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:39:30 + Pierre Neidhardt wrote > Hi! > > I'm trying to installer a scanner on Guix System and > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > scanimage -L > --8<---cut here

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-05-02 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! You still around? Please let me know. Eventhough config for stylus complied without errors, the stylus isn't actually working. :( April 17, 2019 8:11 PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > Hello again, > > "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > >> Ah I see. Thanks for raising the issue. Yes, we'll

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-21 Thread Raghav Gururajan
put works. Thanks a lot. So 2) Stylus Input and 3) > Fingerprint Scanner are done. Shall we move on to 1) Lid Buttons? > Thanks! > On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 00:00 -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > Hello Mark! > > System reconfigure went smooth for fprint. Thanks a lot. Anyway,

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-21 Thread Raghav Gururajan
er services go > > here(set-xorg- > > configuration (xorg- > > configuration (modules (cons xf86- > > input-wacom %default- > > xorg-modules)))

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-21 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! In continuation to my previous email. The "permanent" way you gave for Stylus Input works. Thanks a lot. So 2) Stylus Input and 3) Fingerprint Scanner are done. Shall we move on to 1) Lid Buttons? Thanks!On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 00:00 -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello M

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-19 Thread Raghav Gururajan
top-services)) > I'm sure this works fine, but at least the X230T's (multi-)touch > screen is fully supported by libinput as well: > Section \"InputClass\" Identifier > \"Touchscreens\" MatchIsTouchscreen \"on\" MatchDevicePath > \"

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-19 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! System reconfigure went smooth for fprint. Thanks a lot. Anyway, how do I actually enable the fprint scanner for authentication puposes like login etc? Thanks! Regards,RG.On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 04:54 +, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Mark! > That is so great to hear. I will

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-17 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! That is so great to hear. I will try it and get back to you. Regards, RG. April 17, 2019 8:11 PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > Hello again, > > "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > >> Ah I see. Thanks for raising the issue. Yes, we'll move on to "Stylus Input" >> :) >> >> April 16, 2019 4

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello again, "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > Ah I see. Thanks for raising the issue. Yes, we'll move on to "Stylus Input" > :) > > April 16, 2019 4:22 PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > >> Hi Raghav, >> >> "Raghav Gururajan" writes: >> >>> I made the changes you told me. Now the error is "guix syste

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-16 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Ah I see. Thanks for raising the issue. Yes, we'll move on to "Stylus Input" :) April 16, 2019 4:22 PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > Hi Raghav, > > "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > >> I made the changes you told me. Now the error is "guix system: error: >> /etc/rg-secondary.scm:49:24: no value specif

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Raghav, "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > I made the changes you told me. Now the error is "guix system: error: > /etc/rg-secondary.scm:49:24: no value specified for service of type > 'fprintd'" Sorry, this looks like a genuine bug in Guix's fingerprint service, which was added relatively recentl

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-15 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! I made the changes you told me. Now the error is "guix system: error: /etc/rg-secondary.scm:49:24: no value specified for service of type 'fprintd'" April 14, 2019 2:47 AM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > Hi Raghav, > > "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > >> So my latest config is: >> >> (us

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
vices)) I'm sure this works fine, but at least the X230T's (multi-)touch screen is fully supported by libinput as well: Section \"InputClass\" Identifier \"Touchscreens\" MatchIsTouchscreen \"on\" MatchDevicePath \"/dev/input/event*\" Driv

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver wrote: In an earlier message you spoke of another error: but then new error regarding specifying values. :( If you're still getting that error, can you show us the exact error message and the configuration file that caused it? It's guix system: error: /etc/guix/system.scm:

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix, Mark H Weaver wrote: The correct module name is: (gnu services authentication) I made the same mistake. For the record, it should be fixed in commit d5752f68ef38ce779723cf5864574374b8417ff3. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Raghav, "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > So my latest config is: > > (use-modules > (gnu) > (gnu system nss) > (gnu services fingerprint) > (use-service-modules desktop) > (use-package-modules certs gnome) [...] > For the above, the error is: > > guix system: error: fail

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-13 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! So my latest config is: (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss) (gnu services fingerprint) (use-service-modules desktop) (use-package-modules certs gnome) [...] (services (cons* (service gnome-desktop-service-type)

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-13 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! In continuation to my previous email, gnome now works. Lets focus on fingerprint first, then we'll move to wacom. So for fprint, using "hint" that shows with errors, I have added service-module authentication and package-module freedesktop. But at the end, new error is about "unbou

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-13 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! I have tried both edits already. For gnome, the error is regarding specifying values. For fingerprint, error is regarding no such modules defined; so I searched and found the right module name as "authentication", but then new error regarding specifying values. :( Regards, RG. Apr

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: > In continuation to my previous email, I tried to fix the error. But the old > error is gone and I am getting new ones. > > The errors are: > /etc/rg-secondary.scm:47:24: warning: 'gnome-desktop-service' is deprecated, > use 'gnome-desktop-service-type' ins

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-12 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! In continuation to my previous email, I tried to fix the error. But the old error is gone and I am getting new ones. The errors are:/etc/rg-secondary.scm:47:24: warning: 'gnome-desktop- service' is deprecated, use 'gnome-desktop-service-type' instead/etc/rg-secondary.scm:47:24: warning:

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-12 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Mark! Thank you very much for your help. I have tried by modifying my system config. But when I do "guix system reconfigure", I am getting the error "/etc/rg-secondary.scm:45:8: error: invalid field specifier". The line "45" from the error is pointing to the line "(set-xorg- configuration"

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Earlier, I wrote: >> 2) Input using stylus pen. > > The touch screen is apparently a Wacom device. From GNOME, you might be > able to easily set it up from the "Wacom" section of GNOME settings. I > don't know about other desktop environments off-hand. [...] > To set it up permanently, it *mig

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
%desktop-services)) with at least the following imports near the top of the file: (use-service-modules desktop xorg) (use-package-modules xdisorg) > 3) Fringerprint scanner for authentication. I've never tried to use a fingerprint scanner, but I see that Guix does pr

1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-08 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! What and how should I do to enable the following in my Thinkpad X200T (X200 Tablet)? 1) Buttons on the lid like screen rotation, lock screen etc. 2) Input using stylus pen. 3) Fringerprint scanner for authentication. If there is a way to enable these things by default in system

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

2019-03-20 Thread Jack Hill
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: I can see the scanner from my unprivileged user, and it shows up the the GNOME hardware/calibration dialog. Unfortunately, clicking on the "calibrate" button does nothing. On Debian buster with GNOME 3.30, doing so brings up a calibration w

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

2019-03-16 Thread Jack Hill
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: On Guix, when the scanner is connected via USB it cannot be found by my user's scanning programs (or, therefore, the GNOME hardware/calibration dialog). However, it can be found as root. I suspect the problem is a missing udev rule. What is the righ

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

2019-03-16 Thread Jack Hill
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'm trying to color calibrate my scanner while running GNOME by following these instructions: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/color-calibrate-scanner.html.en I have produced a tiff of my calibration target, but my sc

Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

2019-03-16 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, I'm trying to color calibrate my scanner while running GNOME by following these instructions: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/color-calibrate-scanner.html.en I have produced a tiff of my calibration target, but my scanner doesn't show up in the GNOME sett