I wrote:
>Until FC39, I had only run Wayland on one of my machines, not even
>trying to bring it up on the others. Since I intensely dislike the
>graphic login, I found a way to start it from a virtual terminal like
>I normally start X11. Instead of "startx", I have a short script I call
>"startw" that contains only the single line, "/usr/bin/dbus-run-session
>/usr/bin/startplasma-wayland". (Yes, I run KDE.) This worked on FC38.
>
>Now on the same machine with FC39 (upgraded with system-upgrade) this
>no longer works. Instead, it produces 248 lines of output and then
>terminates. Reviewing those lines, it appears that it is complaining
>about, 'failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"' and 'No suitable
>DRM devices have been found'. I'm not sure what device that refers
>to but there seems to be some indication that it is my display. The
>display certainly works fine for the virtual terminal I use to run
>this script, and it also works fine for X11 if I run "startx".
>
>Ok, so as a fallback I tried a graphic login. This reaches a completely
>blank screen and goes no further. The machine is up as I can reach it
>with SSH but the display is useless. It responds to Ctrl-Alt-Delete
>but nothing else. I can't get it to switch to a different desktop. I
>noticed that SDDM defaults to Wayland so I changed "sddm.conf" to
>include "DisplayServer=x11". The allowed the graphic login to reach
>a login page but nothing I entered there was accepted even when I
>switched to specify starting an X11 session instead of Wayland.
>
>There are some online references to a problem with the /dev/dri/card0
>device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant.
>
>This machine is intended to run an application that only works on
>Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions
>would be very helpful.
If it matters, this machine was never installed with the KDE spin. It
was installed before spins and with extensive editing of the packages to be
included. KDE was added to it. It's been working through several Fedora
releases for at least three years.
--
Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359
d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can
be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-- Elizabeth Taylor
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