Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

[Yuri K. Shatroff]

14.04.2016 10:43, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
>> 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote:
>>> Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
>
>> Hi Dale,
>>
>>> I'm not sure on where you got the black screen.  If it is when X
>>> started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display
>>> manager?  The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't
>>> work.  That may explain the black screen.
>>
>> Sddm worked as expected, not to mention its veeery slow interface (for
>> that nvidia drivers can be blamed, but whatever). The black screen
>> appeared after logging in.
>
> Slow interface?
> It works quite well on my laptop. Did you add the "sddm" user to the "video"
> group as mentioned in the upgrade guide?

No I didn't because I had a much more blatant issue with the whole 
desktop than the 'SDDM display issues', I just didn't get to that. 
Thanks for pointing it out, next time I'll give it a try.

>>> If it after you login, did you select the write session?  At first, I
>>> wasn't sure which one to pick.  There is a couple at least KDE related.
>>> I think I had one that said plasma and one that said KDE wayland.  I
>>> have seen wayland talked about and tried it but I got a black screen.  I
>>> had to restart xdm to reset it.  Then I chose plasma from the list and
>>> it worked.  So, make sure you pick the right one.
>>
>> There were three choices for the session. By default plasma was
>> selected, this was the one that gave me the black screen. Others didn't
>> plain work (returned to sddm).
>
> No idea here, logs?

I didn't see anything relevant in Xorg.?.log (neither in messages) and 
since there was no kdm which usually tracks all KDE messages I didn't 
know where to look. Neither any new log files appeared.


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Regards,
Yuri K. Shatroff