Re: guixsd on macbook

[Alex Kost]

address@hidden (2016-01-29 05:32 +0300) wrote:

> hi,
>
> On 2016-01-22 00:13, Alex Kost wrote:
>> address@hidden (2016-01-22 00:39 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-01-20 16:47, address@hidden wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> address@hidden skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> I've finished installing correctly GuixSD on macbook. There are some
>>>>> issue with touchpad.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone has problems with the keyboard when boot guixsd, fix with
>>>>> the following commands:
>>>>>
>>>>> rmmod usbhid
>>>>> rmmod usbkbd
>>>>>
>>>>> or use an external usb keyboard.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting!  We were discussing this at <http://bugs.gnu.org/20433>,
>>>> and it seems that only ‘usbkbd’ was at fault.
>>>>
>>>> Could you check if removing ‘usbkbd’ alone is enough?
>>>>
>>>> I would expect ‘usbhid’ to be required since the internal keyboard
>>>> appears to be a USB device.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ludo’.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ludo,
>>>
>>> is correct, removing 'usbkbd'.
>>>
>>> I only use 'rmmod usbhid' to reload the module of the internal
>>> keyboard.
>>>
>>> i test configuring from the scratch the machine and it´s working:
>>>
>>> (operating-system
>>>   (host-name "antelope")
>>>   (timezone "Europe/Paris")
>>>   (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
>>>   (kernel-arguments '("modprobe.blacklist=usbkbd"))
>>> .....
>>>
>>>
>>> if i reconfigure:
>>>
>>>   sudo guix system reconfigure /path/to/configuration.scm
>>>
>>> is not working.
>>
>> Did you do "guix pull" before reconfiguring?  Support for
>> "modprobe.blacklist" arguments was added several days ago, so you need
>> to have a recent guix code.
>
>
> apologies for my late reply, i test run "guix pull" before
> reconfiguring, and its don`t working.

Since a system is configured from root, you also need to run "guix pull"
as root.  Did you do it, did you just run "guix pull" from your user?

-- 
Alex