[SOLVED] sway EGL NOT INITIALIZED

tetreur · 2023-01-14 18:05:46

Hello again,

In my pursuit of installing archOS i have now issues with sway

I installed archOS with archinstall
with nvidia-nouveau driver
and choose sway

i followed the official arch guide to get sway running
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Starting

added myself to the seat usergroup with following command

sudo usermod -a -G seat tetreur

then i saw that i was in the seat group using

id $USER

BUT when i start to launch sway by simply wirte sway to the terminal i got an error "failed to create dri2 screen"
here is a partial output of sway -d

libEGL warning: egl failed to create dri2 screen
EGL NOT INITIALIZED

do you have any idea ?

Last edited by tetreur (2023-01-15 10:30:40)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2023-01-14 18:47:36

Try the --unsupported-gpu option for sway. I much prefer the old --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia version though. NVIDIA sucks.

See also https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html ← that's by the original sway author :-)

EDIT: hold on, I missed the "nvidia-nouveau" bit. I might be wrong here. I probably shouldn't bother with NVIDIA threads at all. Over and out.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2023-01-14 18:51:53)

seth · 2023-01-14 20:08:42

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282785

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

lspci -k

tetreur · 2023-01-15 00:13:47

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try the --unsupported-gpu option for sway. I much prefer the old --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia version though. NVIDIA sucks.
See also https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html ← that's by the original sway author :-)
EDIT: hold on, I missed the "nvidia-nouveau" bit. I might be wrong here. I probably shouldn't bother with NVIDIA threads at all. Over and out.

Yeah the "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" flag worked, thanks

seth wrote:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

i forget to add this kernel parameters, i think it helped.
but i won't post the output of lspci here, i don't want you guys to judge me ^^

Head_on_a_Stick · 2023-01-15 00:16:35

tetreur wrote:

Yeah the "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" flag worked

Erm, that option no longer works. It has been replaced by the --unsupported-gpu option. Apologies if my post was unclear.

I think seth nailed it. Again.

tetreur wrote:

i don't want you guys to judge me ^^

Pay no heed to my nonsense. Most people here probably don't care about NVIDIA's behaviour.

seth · 2023-01-15 08:40:28

I predominantly wanted to point out that the OP is likely using the nvida driver. Not nouveau.
But: "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" is crucial for wayland support.

Ftr, nvidia meanwhile /does/ support GBM and there's an open source kernel module, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … idia-open/ (for turing and up)

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2023-01-15 10:39:59

seth wrote:

there's an open source kernel module, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … idia-open/ (for turing and up)

Does that have a user-space component yet? Not much use to the OP without it, unless I'm misunderstanding things.

seth · 2023-01-15 13:16:22

No, only the kernel module.
You'd still nvidia-utils w/ its GL libraries (somewhat like the AMDGPUPRO situation, except there's no non-pro variant)

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