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Re: GDM blank for anyone else with guix system vm?
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: GDM blank for anyone else with guix system vm? |
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Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:27:46 +0200 |
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:42:09PM -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> Not sure why but when testing:
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> ./pre-inst-env guix system vm gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl
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> (and also the normal non-lightweight desktop) I'm getting a blank screen
> once gdm is supposed to start up, but the mouse can still move. I'm
> also running the intel graphics card here.
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> Just curious, is anyone else having this problem?
How much memory are you giving it? There might not be enough for GDM to
actually start. IIRC that command spits out a shell script in the store,
so you can run './gnu/store/really-long-path.sh -m 2G' to switch to using
2GB of RAM.
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