From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45542139335 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE3A2E0884; Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 776CDE086D for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-157-72-169.range86-157.btcentralplus.com ([86.157.72.169] helo=[192.168.1.64]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1lxQkb-0009V3-47 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:06:49 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <60D0BDF3.9000302@youngman.org.uk> <2781279.e9J7NaK4W3@lenovo.localdomain> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <60D83F77.2010607@youngman.org.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:05:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2781279.e9J7NaK4W3@lenovo.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e1db3ffc-d107-43a5-9f67-493c7a42102e X-Archives-Hash: 18a988336d4eac03b2b7f7b1d8b9a0c6 On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > black screen. > > Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: > > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland Okay, we're slowly moving forward ... My first attempt got the error "kwin-plasma won't run as root" or somesuch. Created a new user for me, and promptly got a black screen! As I said earlier, X currently won't run. I've got a Asus EAH4350, and am loading the Radeon driver. When I looked at the X log it was clearly loading the driver, which failed with something like "cannot find /dev/card1". If that gives anyone any clues where to point me that's great, or I'll transfer the logs to this machine and post them. Cheers, Wol