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[76.23.130.96]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u10sm326544qtx.3.2021.11.17.10.13.59 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:14:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:13:58 -0500 From: Jack Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland assorted problems To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 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: <258ad3c0-4768-6cbb-9a65-f54a359aa0f7@youngman.org.uk> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.6.3-real-16-g1a34f0517 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e989f7e3-78c9-4809-a65a-e139ea277491 X-Archives-Hash: 524b62f62b001d46c492fa7176a044f0 On 2021.11.14 17:51, Wol wrote: > I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log =20 > in at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it =20 > doesn't start properly! >=20 > I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up =20 > properly. But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled =20 > the Radeon and R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff =20 > in the kernel and not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers =20 > into the kernel, but am worried I might have missed something. I've =20 > changed it for the next kernel so it'll be a module loading what it =20 > wants from the firmware directory, so hopefully that'll be better but =20 > I'm not sure. >=20 > I did an lspci -k and got this for the video card ... >=20 > 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. =20 > [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] > Kernel driver in use: radeon > Kernel modules: radeon >=20 > I notice it says "VGA compatible", and not what the wiki page leads =20 > me to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think =20 > the card isn't set up properly. I haven't tried Wayland in quite a while, but this motivates me to try =20 again soon. However, my equivalent line is: 1c:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. =20 [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] and Wayland did run for me when I last tried it. What wiki page are =20 you looking at, since I don't see any reference to "video driver." >=20 > The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first =20 > attempt to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) =20 > start successfully. >=20 >=20 > I mentioned Thunderbird - that keeps on losing contact with the =20 > compositor or something which is why it keeps crashing ... >=20 >=20 > And I run a multi-user system. I tried to fire up wayland as a second =20 > user, and got the error >=20 > kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix is not owned by root or us >=20 > Of course it isn't - it's not a user specific link so of course it's =20 > going to clash with another user! >=20 > I attach the wayland log I got in case it gives anybody any other =20 > clues as to what's going on. >=20 > Cheers, > Wol