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eldritch_cookie

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Registered: 2021-09-03

Posts: 13

plasma freezes in splash screen[SOLVED]

when i run startx plasma starts but freezes in the splash screen i can`t do anything at all and ctr-alt-Fnumber to switch to another virtual console does not work, to turn off the computer i have to unplug from the power supply as the poweroff button also doesn`t work.i have tested xfce and that works fine. the log file that i got after re-powering the computer was  ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
running the command in the archwiki

lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)

searching online for a solution yielded this kde link and this unix stackexchange link if this is my problem uninstalling xf86v-video-intel should work however
after running

$ pacman -Rs xf86-video-intel

, x does not start at all and i got this log

when i ran

$ lsmod

i915 was loaded and when i ran

$modinfo i915

i got this

my .xinitrx is just a copy of the default one with the last lines changed to open kde plasma

i have setup early kms start but it doesn`t seem to have made a difference.

in  a possibly related thread the user was asked to run glxinfo so i reinstalled xf86-video-intel and got this result

Last edited by eldritch_cookie (2021-09-05 17:30:03)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,306

Re: plasma freezes in splash screen[SOLVED]

Your hardware might plain be too low for this to work properly/satisfactorily. You might be able to enforce GL 2.1 compat by doing:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … 915_driver which should at least allow KDE/other OGL 2 clients to run. How well and enjoyable that is is a different story.

Last edited by V1del (2021-09-04 10:45:28)

eldritch_cookie

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Registered: 2021-09-03

Posts: 13

Re: plasma freezes in splash screen[SOLVED]

thanks for the help. after i did what you recommended it still didn`t work and i got this log, after searching a little i found that i only needed to create a xorg.conf and add the option "AccelMethod" "none"