[SOLVED] Nouveau: startx works, gdm does not

sultanoswing · 2014-10-17 23:15:34

With the recent update to gnome 3.14, I decided to fiddle with Wayland... Hey, we like to bleed here in Arch, right?

Given that Wayland requires kms, and that nvidia proprietary apparently does not do kms (according to the wikis) I installed nouveau for my nvidia gtx460, again according to the nouveau wiki instructions and removing nvidia stuff, incl xorg.conf. I installed xorg-xwayland too.

Now, startx works OK (3 windows are launched) but gdm refuses to start. According to traditional wisdom, if the basic xterm works, desktop guis should work too.

I've tried reinstalling gdm, and will look through some logs, but any initial thoughts/suggestions gratefully received!

EDIT: SOLVED. Installation of "nouveau" didn't pull in "mesa-libgl" for some reason. Sigh.

Last edited by sultanoswing (2014-10-18 02:36:16)

sultanoswing · 2014-10-18 01:36:01

Solved - see above.

Although Gnome Wayland session won't start - enter username and password into gdm, then screen goes black for a few seconds, before returning to the gdm login screen.

Last edited by sultanoswing (2014-10-18 03:28:23)

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#1 2014-10-17 23:15:34

[SOLVED] Nouveau: startx works, gdm does not

#2 2014-10-18 01:36:01

Re: [SOLVED] Nouveau: startx works, gdm does not

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