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

2024-06-23 Thread Dale
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 u

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

2024-06-23 Thread William Kenworthy
... 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

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

2024-06-23 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:37:15 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: That's my thinking. The only benefit to reinstalling is correcting the partition boo boo. >>> What in particular are you referring to? I thought you c

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:37:15 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > >> That's my thinking. The only benefit to reinstalling is correcting the > >> partition boo boo. > > > > What in particular are you referring to? I thought you created an ESP

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

2024-06-23 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: >> >> That's my thinking. The only benefit to reinstalling is correcting the >> partition boo boo. > What in particular are you referring to? I thought you created an ESP, / and > /home partitions, if I recall. > I was thinking t

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: > >> Top posting for consistency. > >> > >> I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it > >> rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution

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

2024-06-23 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: >> Top posting for consistency. >> >> I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it >> rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution is >> 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at.

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: > Top posting for consistency. > > I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it > rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution is > 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at. When I got back > up

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 02:21:11 BST Dale wrote: > 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-manag

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

2024-06-23 Thread Dale
Top posting for consistency. I booted the Gentoo GUI media.  I opened a window just in case it rebooted or something while I took a little nap.  The resolution is 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at.  When I got back up a few minutes ago, the same window was there.  It ran for hou

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

2024-06-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 22/06/2024 21:04, Michael wrote: This is the other info except nothing xorg there, just wayland. See below for more on that. root@Gentoo-1 ~ # cat/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log I thought you said you were having a problem starting a X session, not starting a Wayland sessi