On 2/25/26 19:29, Tobias Heider wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 06:03:50PM +0000, David Goudou wrote:
niri package pulls in seatd, do you have it running and are you in the _seatd
group?
As of 25.11.20260220, you shouldn't need to set render-drm-device
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, 17:42 Christoph Liebender, <[1][email protected]>
wrote:
Hi ports@, Tobias,
when trying to startniri.sh from vt0, it crashes for me with the
attached error. (Specifying render-drm-device as it was suggested in the
pkg-readme causes niri not to start at all, as I reported in the initial
import thread already.)
I wonder, is there any other steps involved to get niri running? Do I
need seatd, greetd, or anything like that? Or _should_ it just be a
"raw" login to vt0 with startniri.sh? Because that's what I am trying.
- christoph
References:
[1] mailto:[email protected]
In my experience not starting seatd means your input won't work but
I haven't previously seen any gpu detection errors. I guess your user
has to have access to the devices in /dev/dri so maybe check the
permissions.
The latest version of the port (25.11.20260220) has an updated rust
drm crate and shouldn't require the render-drm-device hack anymore.
Does gpu acceleration work on your machine in other applications?
Which GPU are you using?
Thanks for the hints!! After some more trial and error, I got it
working. In the end, seatd/greetd didn't do the trick for me, and
apparently, it can work without anyway.
All I needed was to add this line to /etc/fbtab:
/dev/ttyC0 0600
/dev/wskbd0:/dev/wsmouse[01]:/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/renderD128
for the correct permissions - I hope that this does not introduce any
unwanted "security side-effects"? I can now startniri.sh on vt0.
(wsmouse1 for thinkpad nipple control.)
I wonder though, what would be the greetd setup?
rcctl enable seatd greetd
usermod -G _seatd _greetd
usermod -G _seatd $(whoami)
sed -i 's|agreety --cmd /bin/sh|agreety --cmd startniri.sh|' \
/etc/greetd/config.toml
reboot
... because that's what I did, and inputs would not work. Albeit without
any changes to fbtab. So what's the point?
To answer your question Tobias, my GPU is an Intel UHD Graphics 620.
