Can not get a desktop working at all

luv_linux · 2015-08-09 00:52:37

hello everyone, Alright so this is my second day trying to get arch installed and im almost there i am installing on a macbook pro retina 10,1 model and its arch only i have everything completly set up i have the video driver for intel installed ive tried kde and gnome when i try kde or should i say plasma as soon as i install sddm and enable and reboot it freezes at the archlinux sign in screen and at that point im unable to do anything. I have to boot back into the love media and use that to uninstall sddm after that im boot back into archlinux no problem. Also i am using gummi boot as my bootloader. I am really stumped on this. I would really like to get plasma working because you can do a lot to fix the tiny icons that come with a retina screen. Well thank you in advance for any help. If i have left out any other important info i am sorry just let me know what you need to know, thanks again.

jasonwryan · 2015-08-09 01:00:14

Xorg log and journal will tell you why it is freezing...

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC.

Proinsias · 2015-08-09 01:13:22

I'm not on a macbook and rarely use KDE. I did enable sddm.service and found it did lock up, and give a pop up terminal I couldn't use, when I tried to log in. After a reboot I noticed sddm had preselected 'failsafe' in the top left, when I changed this to plasma all was well. Have you tried starting plasma/kde from .xinitrc with startx without sddm?

luv_linux · 2015-08-09 01:17:15

no i havent i can try it now though how would i go about doing this

Last edited by luv_linux (2015-08-09 01:18:41)

Trilby · 2015-08-09 01:17:59

luv_linux, please use punctuation. That short paragraph is exhausting to read and parse. Help us help you.

luv_linux · 2015-08-09 01:24:21

Not a problem. so i have plasma installed now and sddm uninstalled what window manager should i use?

henk · 2015-08-09 07:03:38

If the item you are searching for is a deacent display manager, try lxdm.

Proinsias · 2015-08-09 12:17:32

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kd … ing_Plasma
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc

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Can not get a desktop working at all

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