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mreff555

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Registered: 2015-02-13

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Trouble with cinnamon

I recently installed arch and I'm trying to get cinnamon to work. No problems with X. but cinnamon is starting up and crashing. I'm still able to hobble around a ugly black desktop and spawn programs by creating launchers but with no wm, I'm pretty limited at what I can do. so rather than posting screen outputs. I'll have to give you a play by play of whats happening.
It seems I can start just about every other cinnamon package without issue, but cinnamon-session crashes, and cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d just loads a black screen.
My laptop has an intel i915 and an NVIDIA 520m. I have a xf86-video-intel and nvidia drivers installed. nouveau and vesa are blacklisted
"lspci -k" shows the i915 driver in use for the intel card and the nvidia driver in use for the NVIDIA card. However it says that both nvidia and nouveau are loaded. I don't know how this is possible since nouveau is both blacklisted and uninstalled. There are no errors in the Xorg log. I don't know of any logs that cinnamon maintains, as this is my first time using it. Any suggestions?

jasonwryan

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Re: Trouble with cinnamon

Have a look at the wiki pages on Optimus and Bumblebee (or whatever the hybrid graphics setups use).

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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mreff555

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Registered: 2015-02-13

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Re: Trouble with cinnamon

I thought optimus wasn't required any more now that modern closed source drivers handle mode switching? I ran a gentoo system without bumblebee for the past two years and had no issues with the drivers.

Does anyone know of any logs that cinnamon writes to. I'm sure this is something stupid but without knowing whats actually happening under the hood its hard to diagnose.

loqs

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Re: Trouble with cinnamon

~/.cinnamon/glass.log

Also coredumpctl will show if there are any coredumps from cinnamon

mreff555

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Registered: 2015-02-13

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Re: Trouble with cinnamon

Thanks loqs