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On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: |
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> > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work |
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> > with |
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> > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a |
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> > black screen. |
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> > Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: |
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> > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland |
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> Okay, we're slowly moving forward ... |
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> My first attempt got the error "kwin-plasma won't run as root" or |
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> somesuch. Created a new user for me, and promptly got a black screen! |
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You're meant to be running X11 as a non-root user. |
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> As I said earlier, X currently won't run. I've got a Asus EAH4350, and |
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> am loading the Radeon driver. |
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I am not familiar with the model and any APU/graphics options it may be |
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furnished with. You have not shared what the video card might be. A quick |
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search on the interwebs mention an AMD R700 family, HD4350 card. According |
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to: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon |
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such a card requires in your make.conf: |
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VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r600" |
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emerge 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware' and in your kernel specify the following |
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firmware: |
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radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_uvd.bin radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/ |
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RS780_me.bin |
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> When I looked at the X log it was clearly |
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> loading the driver, which failed with something like "cannot find |
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> /dev/card1". If that gives anyone any clues where to point me that's |
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> great, or I'll transfer the logs to this machine and post them. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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dmesg will show if there is any problem with the kernel missing modules, or |
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having problems loading firmware; |
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log will show what problems X11 comes up with when it tries to |
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launch. |
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Normally /dev/dri/card0 is the first card being loaded: |
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$ grep -i card /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
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[ 37.111] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) |
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[ 37.148] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1) |
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[ 38.366] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card0 |
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[ 38.367] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card1 |
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