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On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 14 Apr 2016 11:21:39 Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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>> 14.04.2016 10:43, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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>>>> 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: |
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>>>>> Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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>>>> Hi Dale, |
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>>>>> I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X |
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>>>>> started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display |
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>>>>> manager? The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't |
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>>>>> work. That may explain the black screen. |
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>>>> Sddm worked as expected, not to mention its veeery slow interface (for |
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>>>> that nvidia drivers can be blamed, but whatever). The black screen |
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>>>> appeared after logging in. |
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>>> Slow interface? |
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>>> It works quite well on my laptop. Did you add the "sddm" user to the |
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>>> "video" group as mentioned in the upgrade guide? |
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>> No I didn't because I had a much more blatant issue with the whole |
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>> desktop than the 'SDDM display issues', I just didn't get to that. |
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>> Thanks for pointing it out, next time I'll give it a try. |
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> I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my laptop (I |
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> use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have not added sddm |
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> to the video group and have not noticed anything undue in my logs. I have |
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> however noticed that sddm is slightly slower than kdm. |
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> Why is the video group needed? What does it do? |
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It's a simple group permission scheme to allow users access to advanced |
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features on the video card, like what compositing does. |
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cdrom has an equivalent, if you're in the group you can use the drive. |
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If not, you can't |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |