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plasmonics
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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:11 am Post subject: [solved]Unable to setup graphical login using xdm in systemd |
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The hardware is a HP Envy m6-1105dx laptop with Insyde UEFI Bios and Ati Radeon 7660G graphics card. I installed Gentoo with systemd support on a UEFI/GPT hardware. The ncurses part went ok. I am able to set up grub2-efi, WiFi, locale, date/time, and other functions. As far as I can tell, the system boots correctly.
The trouble starts when I try to set up xfce4 with a graphical login screen using xdm or lxdm. I installed the X server, graphics driver, and xfce4 with
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emerge ati-drivers xfce4-meta xfce4-power-manager xdm
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thunar-volman won't install, because it depends on udev which is incompatible with systemd, but that is another problem.
I set up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with
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aticonfig --initial
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Then added the xdm service with
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systemctl enable xdm.service
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It boots into an xdm login screen. After typing name and password, it jumps back to the same screen. lxdm is even worse, it freezes. I tried a text login and launching xfce4 manually both as root and user using
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xinit -- /usr/bin/startxfce4
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xfce4 is launched and works for a couple of minutes before freezing. This is the USE flag in /etc/portage/make.conf
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USE="X alsa disable-watermark gtk gtk3 gudev laptop sound systemd udisks -gdu -gnome -gvfs -kde -webkit"
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I want to avoid spending countless hours building such massive packages as gnome, kde, webkit, etc., hence the various minus signs.
Any help will be appreciated.
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666threesixes666
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| read lightdm wiki, you directly run the graphical login, not xdm.... |
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plasmonics
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I did try lightdm.
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emerge lightdm
systemctl enable lightdm
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Gentoo boots into a lightdm login screen. When I enter name and password, it seems to want to launch xfce4, but then jumps back out and the screen freezes. |
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plasmonics
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I installed the ati beta driver. Now xfce4 no longer freezes.
I still can't get xdm and lightdm window managers to work.
However the lxdm window manager works. |
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