Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 15:27:00 BST Dale wrote:
>> Picking here to get a fresh sub thread going.  Attempt two. 
>>
>> I got all the packages installed.  Made sure the Nvidia video drivers
>> were loaded.  I remembered to make sure elogind was running.  It wasn't,
>> so I started it.  Why doesn't display-manager pull that in???
> You need to have USE="elogind -systemd" in your make.conf, then add the 
> elogind service to the *boot* runlevel as shown here:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind
>

I read down through that.  I did find that acl had made it into the USE
flag line.  I removed it.  It's not on my main rig so no idea where that
came from.  I added -systemd but I think it was already set somewhere
else.  The elogind flag was already set.  I ran emerge -auDN world just
to be sure.  It did recompile packages for the acl change but not
anything else.  I also checked the drivers needed in the kernel.  Looks
like they all there. 


>> Does this yield any clues? 
> Not yet.
>
> Can you please save and attach as plain text files your:
>
> 1. dmesg
> 2. Xorg.0.log
> 3. ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
> 4. /var/log/sddm.log
>
> after you end up in a black screen, in case they reveal something.


Should be attached.  I blanked the files and then rebooted and started
display-manager, (DM).  You should have only the most recent info.  I'm
also putting a chunk of messages below.  It might help.  It isn't much. 
Same as before it seems.  I still say this is something simple but hard
to find.  :/ 

Dale

:-)  :-) 


Messages:

Jun 25 13:31:08 Gentoo-1 login[2726]: pam_unix(login:session): session
opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0)
Jun 25 13:31:08 Gentoo-1 kernel: elogind-daemon[1945]: New session 2 of
user root.
Jun 25 13:31:08 Gentoo-1 login[2759]: ROOT LOGIN  on '/dev/tty1'
Jun 25 13:31:18 Gentoo-1 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable
to read EDID for display device DP-3
Jun 25 13:31:18 Gentoo-1 sddm-helper[2834]:
pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=219) by
root(uid=0)
Jun 25 13:31:18 Gentoo-1 kernel: elogind-daemon[1945]: Existing logind
session ID 2 used by new audit session, ignoring.
Jun 25 13:31:18 Gentoo-1 kernel: elogind-daemon[1945]: New session c1 of
user sddm.