On Monday, 24 June 2024 06:19:10 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > ... > > > >> Now to ponder what comes next. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an > > xorg.conf for nvidia? Have you followed the gentoo Xorg guide where > > it says to try first without that file? I doubt the knoppix etc use a > > conf file and so must depend on the auto detection. > > > > Based on my own experience I can say using an xorg.conf (though it was > > a radeon card) is an easy way to shoot yourself in the foot! > > > > BillK > > At first I did not have a xorg.conf file. When it didn't work right, I > tried creating one to see if it would work. It didn't work with or > without one.
Yes, but at first you were trying to launch a Wayland session. Did you also try to launch an X11 session without an xorg.conf file? Any changes you need to include non-default settings should be added under /etc/ X11/xorg.conf.d/. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Configuration You should at least try to launch a X11 session using a console and see what is printed out on the CLI after you exit (or if it crashes). ~ $ exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11
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