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satrapes

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Registered: 2018-09-25

Posts: 7

[Solved]: Can't get Display Managers XDM or LightDM to work

Hello for the last 3 days I have been trying to add a display manager to my fairly trivial arch linux.
My end goal is to have XDM + i3 without a Desktop Environment if I have understood things correctly.

My initial choice was XDM (xdm-archlinux) however I haven't managed to get it working.
I have tried xdm, xdm-archlinux and lightdm and I can't seem to get it to work.

I'll let the logs do the talking, I hope they are enough.

xdm-config archlinux
journalctl -xe
Xorg.0.log
Xorg.1.log
Xorg.2.log
Xorg.3.log
xdm.log

I have followed the installation guide and I thought that just installing xdm or xdm-archlinux would be straight forward however I can't seem to get
a graphical login from the display manager.

Please let me know if you need more information

Last edited by satrapes (2018-09-29 22:36:49)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [Solved]: Can't get Display Managers XDM or LightDM to work

You have an Optimus system. You will have to decide whether you want to run on your intel card and disable the nvidia card to save power and only activate it on demand, or enabling the nvidia card as the dedicated renderer.

In the first case, follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee in the second case follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ing_nvidia

satrapes

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Registered: 2018-09-25

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved]: Can't get Display Managers XDM or LightDM to work

Thank you very much.

It turns out that 2 things were causing me the trouble
1. Even though I had added acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" to the kernel parameters it had to be input as: "acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009'" so (Windows 2009 in single quotes and the whole added in double quotes). Otherwise it was only adding acpi_osi=!
2. I needed to  remove xorg.conf from /etc/X11/