On 17/11/2021 23:54, Jack wrote:
On 2021.11.14 17:51, Wol wrote:
I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log
in at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
Seems to work fine for me (with minimal testing.)
I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up
properly. But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled
the Radeon and R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff
in the kernel and not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers
into the kernel, but am worried I might have missed something. I've
changed it for the next kernel so it'll be a module loading what it
wants from the firmware directory, so hopefully that'll be better but
I'm not sure.
I did an lspci -k and got this for the video card ...
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
1c:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X]
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD
7770/8760 / R7 250X]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
I notice it says "VGA compatible", and not what the wiki page leads me
to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think the
card isn't set up properly.
The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first attempt
to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) start
successfully.
I mentioned Thunderbird - that keeps on losing contact with the
compositor or something which is why it keeps crashing ...
No crash, although I didn't run it very long.
And I run a multi-user system. I tried to fire up wayland as a second
user, and got the error
kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix is not owned by root or us
Of course it isn't - it's not a user specific link so of course it's
going to clash with another user!
When you run multiple copies of xorg, each one runs in a different
console. I wouldn't be surprised if wayland simply isn't set up to do
that.
I attach the wayland log I got in case it gives anybody any other
clues as to what's going on.
The attached log includes the above kwin error. Can you post one where
there isn't another wayland session running? I'd also confirm that
directory does go away when no X or wayland is running. You might need
to manually delete it.
Okay, I rebooted the system, and tried to start Wayland. The first log
is the output of my first attempt. This hung and I had to kill it.
Actually, it was worse than that, <ctrl><alt><f2> caused the video
driver or somesuch to crash - I ended up with a scrambled display, and
had to ssh in and reboot ...
I then googled, and because it said DISPLAY is not set, I tried setting
it to both DISPLAY=localhost:0 and DISPLAY=0:0. This gave two identical
logs, the second one, which didn't hang - it just failed to start and
terminated.
I'm trying to install and run the latest kernel - the current kernel has
compiled the driver and firmware into the kernel, I've told the new
kernel to build it as a module and not load the firmware into the
kernel, but you've seen my post about genkernel ... where simply trying
to tell genkernel to put the final initramfs somewhere other than the
default causes fatal errors in the build ...
Cheers,
Wol
No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution
KWin exited with code 1
Launching kwin
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.
No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution
kwin_wayland_drm: drmSetClientCap for Atomic Mode Setting failed. Using legacy
mode on GPU "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5089:46: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5091:48: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5093:48: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5097:47: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5099:46: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5107:48: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5111:46: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5113:46: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5117:45: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5120:46: this
compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD RV710 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.61-gentoo,
LLVM 13.0.0)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 21.2.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
Driver: R600G
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 3.0
GLSL version: 1.30
Mesa version: 21.2.5
Linux kernel version: 5.10.61
Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Virtual Machine: no
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kf.notifications: env says KDE is running but SNI unavailable -- check
KDE_FULL_SESSION and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix does not exist. Please check your installation
kwin_xwl: Failed to create Xwayland connection sockets
kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
startplasma-waylandsession: Starting up...qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not
support QWindow::requestActivate()
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
"kwin_wayland_wrapper" ("--xwayland",
"/usr/lib64/libexec/startplasma-waylandsession") exited with code 15
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.
The Wayland connection broke. Did the Wayland compositor die?
