Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Dale
Hi Mark, I think you have a good point.  I think I missed something.  Gentoo can be complicated to get going the first time with all the config options.  Once it is going tho, it goes.  I feel I missed either a config option in the guide or maybe some package is missing that isn't pulled in as a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 22 June 2024 19:13:42 BST Dale wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> Michael wrote: > >> root@Gentoo-1 ~ # xrandr --verbose >> Can't open display >> root@Gentoo-1 ~ # >> >> >> That's after I started display-manager but this time, it did nothing. >> The screen stayed on a consol

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Dale, Sorry for top posting but I'm travelling and responding on my phone. I don't think this is you hardware and probably not KDE. It's possibly some Gentoo-ish issue. To test and get a KDE config I would boot a Kubuntu flash drive and choose the 'Try it's option which installs nothing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 22 June 2024 19:13:42 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Michael wrote: > root@Gentoo-1 ~ # xrandr --verbose > Can't open display > root@Gentoo-1 ~ # > > > That's after I started display-manager but this time, it did nothing. > The screen stayed on a console. I did move the cable

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Dale
Howdy again. Put in other card.  It's a NVS 510.  Anyway, output of some common log files.  root@Gentoo-1 ~ # tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 22 13:47:29 Gentoo-1 kernel: elogind-daemon[1756]: New session 5 of user root. Jun 22 13:47:58 Gentoo-1 sddm-helper[2518]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): s

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Friday, 21 June 2024 20:02:22 BST Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> On my new rig, I've got everything installed. I mostly been on a >>> console which has worked without issue. Now I've started using the GUI, >>> KDE, and I'm having issues. I wanted to run a comma

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Friday, 21 June 2024 20:02:22 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> On my new rig, I've got everything installed. I mostly been on a >> console which has worked without issue. Now I've started using the GUI, >> KDE, and I'm having issues. I wanted to run a command to generate a >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
kde hasn't been accessible enough for screen reader users like me to install it and use it. That out of the way, could that be kde locking your screen for you using a 1 minute time limit? If so, maybe that can be adjusted. The gsettings app likely isn't on your machine so it won't help for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-22 Thread Michael
On Friday, 21 June 2024 20:02:22 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > On my new rig, I've got everything installed. I mostly been on a > console which has worked without issue. Now I've started using the GUI, > KDE, and I'm having issues. I wanted to run a command to generate a > xorg.conf file and it