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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.





  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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