From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:18:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2769418.mvXUDI8C0e@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dbc9cc2-8b79-4f2e-bc21-4b560471117f@app.fastmail.com>
On Saturday 25 January 2025 21:41:01 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been running in to a problem on and off for the past year or so: when I
> boot my computer it won't always show a login screen (SDDM). The screen
> will remain dark without a signal. If I swap tty with ctrl+alt+F1 it will
> show me the boot log, with the last entry being "starting local" and
> letting me login through the terminal. I can then reboot and things will
> start up just fine. Interestingly it does say something about shutting down
> the display manager when I reboot in such instances...
>
> I feel like happens if I fail to start my monitor fast enough, but I'm not
> entirely sure. Could that be related?
You need your monitor on during startup; the system needs to read EDID from it
to be able to drive it properly. That could be your problem.
--
Regards,
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-26 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-25 21:41 [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show Markus Gustafsson
2025-01-26 11:18 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2025-01-26 12:33 ` Michael
2025-01-29 21:19 ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-01-30 8:06 ` Michael
2025-02-02 11:09 ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-02-02 13:11 ` Michael
2025-02-07 20:56 ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-02-08 10:02 ` Michael
2025-02-08 11:02 ` Michael
2025-02-11 17:20 ` Alan Grimes
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