[Nix-dev] Problem booting the new nixos kernel

[Tony White]

2009/4/29 Marco Maggesi <maggesi at math.unifi.it>:
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>
>>> <<< NixOS Stage 1 >>>
>>>
>>> /nix/store/lv1...5q-kernel-modules-shrunk/insmode-list: No such file or
>>> directory
>>
>> Thanks, I just ran into this as well.  The reason was a bug in the
>> generation of
>> the set of kernel modules for the initial ramdisk.  I've just committed a
>> fix
>> (r15394).
>
> Yes, it works!
> Thank you.
>
>
> But I'm not done yet... (sorry guys!)
> Now I have a problem with the X server.
> The server starts and works but:
> 1. I cannot switch virtual consoles.
> 2. It does not get the right resolution (I think i get 800x600).
> (BTW: which packages contains the xvidtune command?)
>
> You can find in attach the log file X.0.log and the old and new
> versions of my xorg.conf.
> The most significant change seems to be the fact the following
> section disappeared in the new generated configuration:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Driver       "kbd"
>  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
>  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
>  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
>  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
>  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Driver       "mouse"
>  Identifier   "Mouse[0]"
>  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> EndSection
>
> together with the following two lines in the section "ServerLayout"
>
>  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>  InputDevice  "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"
>
> Thanks again for your help.
> Marco
>
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Hi Marco,
if it's not in there already, try adding something like this to your
xserver config in configuration.nix along with your existing settings
:

  services = {

    xserver = {
	resolutions = [{x = 1024; y = 768;} {x = 800; y = 600;} {x = 640; y = 480;}];

	    };

Hope that helps,

Tony