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jfabernathy

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2019-01-03

Posts: 123

[Solved] Display manager problems

My experience comes from using Ubuntu for years. I'm trying to do what I have done forever but now in Arch Linux but having problems.

I have a fresh install and installed xorg-server, Intel video drivers and xfce4.  I can get the desktop up and running by booting up, logging in, and startx.

I thought about having the system boot up to a login screen which in Ubuntu would require lightdm.  So I installed lightdm and the default greeter, but on reboot the monitor went to the screen that says no input detected.  My monitor is a Samsung UHD 4K TV and my PC is a NUC capable of 1080P.  my xorg.conf only has:

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
  Driver      "intel"
  Option      "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

This should be basic setup, but I'm missing something.

Jim A

Last edited by jfabernathy (2019-02-01 15:42:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,427

Re: [Solved] Display manager problems

Can you post your lightdm config, as well as

journalctl -u lightdm

(within [ code ] tags) Did you already check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output

jfabernathy

Member

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2019-01-03

Posts: 123

Re: [Solved] Display manager problems

oops! I forgot to edit lightdm.conf and specify the session greeter.  That fixed it.

Jim A

Last edited by jfabernathy (2019-02-01 15:43:05)