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Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: |
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>>> I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my |
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>>> laptop (I use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have |
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>>> not added sddm to the video group and have not noticed anything undue in |
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>>> my logs. I have 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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> I'd understand this if sddm was using hardware acceleration to play some video |
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> or snazzy graphics while login in. It looks rather static to me, unless it |
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> uses the card to scroll between user icons ... ? |
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I think I posted this elsewhere. I have a Nvidia card and use Nvidia's |
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drivers. I didn't have sddm in the video group until someone else |
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posted about it. I didn't see it in the howto I guess. Point is, it |
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worked here. It doesn't focus on the password field like it should but |
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it came up, let me login and then started up KDE like it should. So, |
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I'm not sure what difference it is but for some at least, it works |
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without being in the video group. Card info: |
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VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] |
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(rev a2) |
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Driver version: |
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x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.96 |
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Maybe the age of my card is why it works for me. I don't know. I just |
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thought I would share the info in case it will help someone else with |
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this, maybe figure out why it works for some but not others. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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