Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:55:20 BST Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi again, > > I tried to catch the error again and while doing so I realized you guys are of course correct: sddm usually starts on tty 2. I don't know why I got it into my head that it would start on tty 8. Anyway, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Markus Gustafsson
Hi again, I tried to catch the error again and while doing so I realized you guys are of course correct: sddm usually starts on tty 2. I don't know why I got it into my head that it would start on tty 8. Anyway, when I finally got it to reproduce (took a few restarts) I didn't get a blinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:29:11 BST Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem I'm not quite sure how to tackle: every other startup > or so results in a black screen. Usually nothing gets printed (no bios > splash, not GRUB menu, no OpenRC prints), and the monitor goes to low

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/04/2024 19:53, Jack wrote: Are you certain it hasn't started on some TTY other than 8?  I always start out on TTY1, although I start up text only, no SDDM. However, I do have a very vague memory of something similar, and I believe it was that I needed to change one of the kernel FB

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Dale
Hoël Bézier wrote: >> However, it does wake up if I switch to another TTY (e.g. >> ctrl+alt+F4) and lets me log on, so it has obviously booted up. If I >> switch back to TTY 8 from there it just shows a blinking cursor (i.e. >> not SDDM, which is what I'd expect). If I reboot from the TTY that >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Hoël Bézier
However, it does wake up if I switch to another TTY (e.g. ctrl+alt+F4) and lets me log on, so it has obviously booted up. If I switch back to TTY 8 from there it just shows a blinking cursor (i.e. not SDDM, which is what I'd expect). If I reboot from the TTY that lets me log on, the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Jack
On 4/3/24 2:29 PM, Markus Gustafsson wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem I'm not quite sure how to tackle: every other startup or so results in a black screen. Usually nothing gets printed (no bios splash, not GRUB menu, no OpenRC prints), and the monitor goes to low power mode after a while (I

[gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Markus Gustafsson
Hi, I'm having a problem I'm not quite sure how to tackle: every other startup or so results in a black screen. Usually nothing gets printed (no bios splash, not GRUB menu, no OpenRC prints), and the monitor goes to low power mode after a while (I haven't quite confirmed if this is actually