On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work > > with > > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > > black screen. > > > > Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: > > > > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland > > Okay, we're slowly moving forward ... > > My first attempt got the error "kwin-plasma won't run as root" or > somesuch. Created a new user for me, and promptly got a black screen!
You're meant to be running X11 as a non-root user. > As I said earlier, X currently won't run. I've got a Asus EAH4350, and > am loading the Radeon driver. I am not familiar with the model and any APU/graphics options it may be furnished with. You have not shared what the video card might be. A quick search on the interwebs mention an AMD R700 family, HD4350 card. According to: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon such a card requires in your make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r600" emerge 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware' and in your kernel specify the following firmware: radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_uvd.bin radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/ RS780_me.bin > When I looked at the X log it was clearly > loading the driver, which failed with something like "cannot find > /dev/card1". If that gives anyone any clues where to point me that's > great, or I'll transfer the logs to this machine and post them. > > Cheers, > Wol dmesg will show if there is any problem with the kernel missing modules, or having problems loading firmware; /var/log/Xorg.0.log will show what problems X11 comes up with when it tries to launch. Normally /dev/dri/card0 is the first card being loaded: $ grep -i card /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 37.111] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) [ 37.148] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1) [ 38.366] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card0 [ 38.367] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card1
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