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I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log in |
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at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it |
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doesn't start properly! |
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I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up properly. |
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But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled the Radeon and |
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R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff in the kernel and |
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not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers into the kernel, but |
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am worried I might have missed something. I've changed it for the next |
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kernel so it'll be a module loading what it wants from the firmware |
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directory, so hopefully that'll be better but I'm not sure. |
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I did an lspci -k and got this for the video card ... |
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09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
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[AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] |
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Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] |
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Kernel driver in use: radeon |
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Kernel modules: radeon |
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I notice it says "VGA compatible", and not what the wiki page leads me |
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to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think the |
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card isn't set up properly. |
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The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first attempt |
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to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) start |
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successfully. |
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I mentioned Thunderbird - that keeps on losing contact with the |
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compositor or something which is why it keeps crashing ... |
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And I run a multi-user system. I tried to fire up wayland as a second |
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user, and got the error |
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kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix is not owned by root or us |
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Of course it isn't - it's not a user specific link so of course it's |
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going to clash with another user! |
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I attach the wayland log I got in case it gives anybody any other clues |
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as to what's going on. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |