Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-18 Thread znavko
sorry, that previous email contained xorg.log from another laptop. this is from my asus k50c with sis771/671: $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log [25.713] X.Org X Server 1.20.5 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [25.714] Build Operating System: GNU GuixSD [25.714] Current Operating System:

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark, Mark H Weaver wrote: Is this even the same driver? I don't understand the question. Same driver as what? Never mind, I guess we'll find out. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log [10.574] X.Org X Server 1.20.4 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [10.583] Build Operating System: GNU GuixSD [10.586] Current Operating System: Linux antelope 5.0.14-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 [10.586] Kernel command line:

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
zna...@disroot.org writes: > Mark, this is my lspci, lsmod, guix describe: Can you share the contents of your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? That should show us which video driver(s) were loaded and any relevant error messages. Mark

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Guix already has 'xf86-video-sis', and it's already included in >> %default-xorg-modules in (gnu services xorg). So, now we just need >> to >> find out why it's not working. > > Is this even the same driver? I don't understand the

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
Mark, this is my lspci, lsmod, guix describe: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver wrote: Guix already has 'xf86-video-sis', and it's already included in %default-xorg-modules in (gnu services xorg). So, now we just need to find out why it's not working. Is this even the same driver? Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
Mark, let's start. As I've read in links Tobias offered Sis 771/671 is not mentioned there, but many other versions are presented. Is it reason? If you say what exactly to type in my config [1] I'll do it. [1] http://termbin.com/ni3a June 17, 2019 4:04 PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote: > Hello, >

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > On a more positive note: have you looked at > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sisimedia/ > (or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sis/)? Guix already has 'xf86-video-sis', and it's already included in %default-xorg-modules in

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-16 Thread znavko
Thank you, Tobias! I'll try to use that. As I understand I need to write driver package definition using Guix Manual #Defining-Packages. Is there some difficulties with driver packages? June 16, 2019 4:08 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" wrote: > Ehlo Znavko, > > zna...@disroot.org wrote: > >>

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ehlo Znavko, zna...@disroot.org wrote: oops, not sure it is intel. SiS[0] is not Intel. They're a Taiwanese company whose graphics division later became the ill-fated XGI for a while. Takes me backā€¦ :-) here i've placed driver https://gitgud.io/znavko/sis771 As was to be expected,