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Rick-in-ok

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Registered: 2016-01-02

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After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

After updating to MESA 23.1.0  Instead of the usual screen to login I get just White screen.  I am running KDE Plasma and sddm.
I could change to another virtual terminal
Workaround was to downgrade to previous version of MESA.

GPU is Radeon R5.

Last edited by Rick-in-ok (2023-05-28 01:09:56)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

That suggests something may be wrong in your graphics setup .

Please post lspci -k output , the contents of  /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and any files in /etc/sddm.conf.d/ folder .

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-05-25 13:26:13)

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seth

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286012

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gps1539

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Registered: 2013-11-06

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

I also hit an issue after updating Mesa to 23.1.0. For me the gnome login screen was garbled and unreadable. I could still get to a virtual terminal and the text was thankfully readable so I could downgrade. After downgrading to 23.0.3 all works as expected.

My setup also uses the radeon driver.

lshw -c video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:28 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff

Rick-in-ok

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

Ok  Output of lspci -k
https://pastebin.com/iQ9SStDb

output of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
https://pastebin.com/LpMaiN0R

output of  /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset
https://pastebin.com/36NH1PEK

I have no sddm.conf  or anything under /etc/sddm.conf.d

Rick-in-ok

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

I reinstalled mesa 23.1.0 long enough to run
journalctl -b
https://pastebin.com/ptPYxfh4

seth

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

Did you see the other thread and try the behavior w/ amdgpu instead of radeon?

@gps1539 that's a Sothern Island chip (I know that because I'm an expert in geography!) so you'd need "si_support" instead of "cik_support" to try the amdgpu module.

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speedyb0y

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

Same here!

I was lucky to have the older mesa package in my cache, so I manually reinstalled it and rebooted.

In my case it's a screen corruption, affecting Sway, SDDM, GDM...
It breaks both Wayland and X.
So the problem is MESA itself.

I use the latest github kernel, and also tried the linux-zen package.

AMD A8-7650K Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

As I too, am an expert on geography, did you also try switching your Sea Islands card to amdgpu via

radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1

on the kernel parameters: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … K)_support ?

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-26 13:39:26)

W54J04S07T

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

So the problem is MESA itself.

[AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]

And the solution is in [extra-testing] mesa 23.1.1-1  ... which works.

You can wait for it to go live, or just "downgrade"  where mesa 23.1.1-1 shows up as the last
option on the list and "remote".

TTYL

Rick-in-ok

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

I changed to the amdgpu. It seems to work. I'm not sure yet if there are any consequences.  i guess If I have any problems I can downgrade mesa again and the new one will be put soon.

Thanks.

I guess I am supposed to add Solved to the Subject. I'm not sure how to do that.

Last edited by Rick-in-ok (2023-05-27 07:24:02)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: After update MESA 23.1.0 sddm was just a white screen. [Solved]

I guess I am supposed to add Solved to the Subject. I'm not sure how to do that.

Edit first post in the thread, that will allow you to edit the title and prepend [Solved] to it.
(there's a charcter limit, you may have to reword the title to shorten it)

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