On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 15:27:00 BST Dale wrote: > Picking here to get a fresh sub thread going. Attempt two. > > I got all the packages installed. Made sure the Nvidia video drivers > were loaded. I remembered to make sure elogind was running. It wasn't, > so I started it. Why doesn't display-manager pull that in???
You need to have USE="elogind -systemd" in your make.conf, then add the elogind service to the *boot* runlevel as shown here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind > Anyway, I > started display-manager and got the sddm screen. I selected Plasma x11 > instead of Plasma wayland. I then logged in. It took a little bit but > finally the screen came up. All I get is the 'Welcome to KDE plasma" > window. Everything else is black. I like the screen that says "simple > by default". It's simple alright. A black screen is pretty simple. LOL! > The mouse pointer moves so it sees the mouse. Right click should bring > up a menu. Nothing. The little panel thing that is usually at the > bottom, nothing. Once I close the welcome window, it's black. > > This is the messages file from the point of me starting display-manager. [snip ..] > Does this yield any clues? Not yet. Can you please save and attach as plain text files your: 1. dmesg 2. Xorg.0.log 3. ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log 4. /var/log/sddm.log after you end up in a black screen, in case they reveal something.
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