Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

[antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote:
> 
>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a
>> full-weight normal desktop.
> [snip ...]
> 
>> I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd
> 
> Select default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable).
> 
> Then update @world.  You should be good to go as long as video drivers and
> firmware are in place, but if X11 is not working this could be an area
> meriting further investigation.
> 
Okay, ...

One new kernel later (along with some grub debugging :-), world updated, ...

X11 still isn't working - first it complained it couldn't find twm, so I 
emerged that, now startx just runs and exits, and the log doesn't seem 
to show anything wrong ...

Wayland is interesting ... if I try to startplasma-wayland, it comes up 
with the starting plasma stuff, and there's a mouse cursor, but nothing 
except a black screen and the cursor. When I kill it from a root tty, 
there's an error

Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory)

which a google tells me I haven't got a compositor ...

I also get further errors, but they're probably a consequence -

Could not load the Qt platform plugin "Wayland" in "" even though it was 
found

and the same error for xcb.

Cheers,
Wol