From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BC059CB2 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A55B121C080; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com (mail-wm0-f65.google.com [74.125.82.65]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AF2721C042 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id a140so4155108wma.2 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:43:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kDhF8GbqdxMnwvXNTG4TFWW/ZEN0d7oP4aUbPvoQQrs=; b=ygyOUnnpbx5xXs8bgMgdzQPOhNW3pBSSX2batabEqyooaggbTeoIJ5zCHqqYk8TDAO 7tNcio5ifNKb1wuAYW9yO2eaSsw4ZoTm9k2B/bJSv3NVbKOlfvYwXfcK5hZ5SZSa3XhM R6lcy8AdmEw6Xs72tOF/V/m+XUmEFBvu2SRbnFo+PtmVj989MxSNbh0A6LxMeueu2do+ YcvEVkM1Nmt1j7475U3r7FZfBE49oWDmFUKBTQ2dnmIKavuXUbYi+YyatybeS0HV1nhk t5XlZgrEOzv+NEBAl9CUUO02ol7A9otuIMFP29qxpSmkuPujcCfCdXZNdVenQnHSe8Av 6Vwg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kDhF8GbqdxMnwvXNTG4TFWW/ZEN0d7oP4aUbPvoQQrs=; b=jjDXGgHCcry9hHmaOhj/L2QPeTZVFN3ZjVHqqkjwtE5UKiA0R0RX5lhqqJ05WfQV9R Oo5q5Yj1g0Q2iAY1nV5l2OOY1NPkPhhrUJT3ODsds4o5ylbQfDoDHNpykS6jBqR2XPg6 VglQnuUHnXWuCT1nTTD8Cy70q/DqvyO6Upk6pYZjieFc4TMkkEGp+YS7ej4pyAnO5k67 JxjhNLN3/aBCiX+C7yvrJB3J3bKZcWZwRsstjVQKneCQvJiUam8QPsHVFcXDJvY0DzvB KWKVPaSX6Lh9btNdaNKk+GfEY/UXClhJIiBnE2V/cjdGBuOhyisVx/O7l0yzEpsYFaEJ YgtA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FX8evlpxRZ2X1N20cucVsgqdAwJy3VMvLVTe9eA/3SGKKGkzEiQ604r+zc0QnbhqQ== X-Received: by 10.194.89.38 with SMTP id bl6mr19908223wjb.44.1460709810191; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([165.255.116.236]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id gg7sm47836889wjd.10.2016.04.15.01.43.28 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <570C89C0.3060807@gmail.com> <2953081.zKoEVCfRZY@andromeda> <570F5313.1060005@yandex.ru> <11239581.vlvDZdi9DS@dell_xps> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <5710A9AE.6020603@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <11239581.vlvDZdi9DS@dell_xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dee1cfb6-0aed-4044-b13d-0e1ef332aab5 X-Archives-Hash: b7b5310197f54b2a849400252b73cc50 On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 14 Apr 2016 11:21:39 Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >> 14.04.2016 10:43, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >>>> 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: >>>>> Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >>>> Hi Dale, >>>> >>>>> I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X >>>>> started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display >>>>> manager? The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't >>>>> work. That may explain the black screen. >>>> >>>> Sddm worked as expected, not to mention its veeery slow interface (for >>>> that nvidia drivers can be blamed, but whatever). The black screen >>>> appeared after logging in. >>> >>> Slow interface? >>> It works quite well on my laptop. Did you add the "sddm" user to the >>> "video" group as mentioned in the upgrade guide? >> >> No I didn't because I had a much more blatant issue with the whole >> desktop than the 'SDDM display issues', I just didn't get to that. >> Thanks for pointing it out, next time I'll give it a try. > > I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my laptop (I > use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have not added sddm > to the video group and have not noticed anything undue in my logs. I have > however noticed that sddm is slightly slower than kdm. > > Why is the video group needed? What does it do? > It's a simple group permission scheme to allow users access to advanced features on the video card, like what compositing does. cdrom has an equivalent, if you're in the group you can use the drive. If not, you can't -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com