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On 2021.11.14 17:51, Wol wrote: |
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> I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log |
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> in 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 |
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> properly. But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled |
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> the Radeon and R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff |
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> in the kernel and not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers |
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> into the kernel, but am worried I might have missed something. I've |
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> changed it for the next kernel so it'll be a module loading what it |
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> wants from the firmware directory, so hopefully that'll be better but |
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> 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 |
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> me to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think |
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> the card isn't set up properly. |
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I haven't tried Wayland in quite a while, but this motivates me to try |
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again soon. However, my equivalent line is: |
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1c:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
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[AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] |
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and Wayland did run for me when I last tried it. What wiki page are |
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you looking at, since I don't see any reference to "video driver." |
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> The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first |
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> attempt to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) |
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> start 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 |
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> clues as to what's going on. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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