On 21/12/2017 17:41, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no > longer switch to SDDM on > VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM > and login as usual. If I boot > with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and the login > screen of SDDM appears directly > while the rest of the modules is loaded in background. > > Both machines have older Radeon chips (REDWOOD and CEDAR) and I managed to > load also their firmware > with the new kernel 4.14.7, but there's still no automatic switch to VT7 > anymore. > > I found nothing obvious in /var/log/messages, dmesg or Xorg.0.log. What may > cause this weird behavior? > > Cheers, > Jörg > >
It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic. Alice Ferrazzi posted this to gentoo-dev earlier today: =====start quote===== Hello, We have recently started the stabilization of gentoo-sources-4.14.8. Very soon we received reports regarding broken e1000e driver [1] and moved to gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1. Since then we keep receiving new problems related to 4.14.x kernel: - IPSec is broken [2] - Change in 4.14.9 broke nVIDIA driver [3] - Colors on console are broken with some Radeon HD cards [4] - BUG report on boot [5] - Unbootable system with CONFIG_MCORE2 [6] - ...more bugs [7] While not all issues are present in gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 we are concerned about the current stability/quality of the 4.14.x branch in general and don't feel comfortable recommending 4.14.x branch for general use at the moment. But that's what a stable USE flag means for most Gentoo users. So, for now, we have decided to drop gentoo-sources-4.14.x stable keywords. We will keep watching 4.14 branch and once the stability/quality matches our requirements we will restart stabilization. Keep in mind: We are only dropping stable USE flags. If gentoo-sources-4.14.x works for you and you want to keep it, just keyword the package on your own! ===== end quote===== If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using 4.14.x and go back to say 4.12.x ? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
