On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:17 PM Dave Close <d...@compata.com> 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. > > After much searching, checking alternate users, verifying permissions, > etc, I determined I was unlikely to find the problem. I took the coward's > way out and downgraded the machine to FC38. After that, the problem is > gone! > > I'll leave it at FC38 for a while while watching for any online comments > that might provide a clue to a real solution.
Lol... +1. Save your strength and fight another day! -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
