On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 9:42 PM George at Clug <c...@goproject.info> wrote:
> On Monday, 02-12-2024 at 03:20 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 10:12 AM George at Clug <c...@goproject.info> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, 01-12-2024 at 21:40 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > You may want to avoid upgrading KDE Plasma to 6.2 in sid. I upgraded > it > > > > earlier and after a reboot I only get a black screen when logging in. > > > > > > Whenever someone says, KDE Plasma and black screen together, I think > > > "nvidia drivers". > > > > > > I doubt that is your issue. But do you have an Nvidia GPU in the > computer? > > > > > > George. > > > > > > > No, I do not have Nvidia. I have Sid in a VM. The black screen is strange > > because I have a visible mouse pointer. I also get crash reporter popups. > > > > "A black screen with only a visible mouse pointer" is one of the issues I > have seen on computers with an Nvidia GPU, hence to me it was likely you > had an Nvidia GPU, since you do not, then I suspect that the issue is > related to the Graphics type that you have selected for your VM, maybe > changing this to virtio and enabling OpenGL? > > FYI: My Debian Testing VM with KDE Plasma Wayland is working well after > updates. > > What GPU does your computer have?, and what Graphics system is your VM > using? (Which graphics driver and Display protocol do you use ?) > I have AMD with OpenAMD GPU Driver. > > Were you using a Wayland session or an X11 session? > Wayland > > Do you get to see the SDDM login screen or is that black with a mouse > pointer, too? > SDDM works fine > > I use a Radeon RX 6600 GPU. In Virt-Manager, my Display is Spice server, > Address, Hypervisor default, Port set to Auto. OpenGL is not selected. > > On my Debian Bookworm i7 Intel computer, I had a Debian Testing VM with > Cinnamon, so I cloned this VM, ran updates and then installed kde-full. > During the installation I selected "sddm" for the default display manager. > > When I rebooted I could see the SDDM login screen, and for the "Session", > I selected Plasma (Wayland), then logged in normally. Everything was > working as expected. > > If I selected the QXL video type, then when I booted up, the VM hung > during loading and no mouse pointer. When I changed back to the virtio > driver, all worked well and I was able log in and watch youtube videos. > > Please let me know if I can help. > I just use the VM to do testing of the installer and updates. I am just going to waite a week or so then do a clean install. > > Here are my VM settings for the display > > <graphics type="spice" port="5900" autoport="yes" listen="127.0.0.1"> > <listen type="address" address="127.0.0.1"/> > <image compression="off"/> > </graphics> > > <video> > <model type="virtio" heads="1" primary="yes"/> > <alias name="video0"/> > <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" > function="0x0"/> > </video> > > ---------------------------------- > > When using Cinnamon I usually enable "OpenGL" too, so I tried this too. > > <video> > <model type="virtio" heads="1" primary="yes"> > <acceleration accel3d="yes"/> > </model> > <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" > function="0x0"/> > </video> > > <graphics type="spice"> > <listen type="none"/> > <image compression="off"/> > <gl enable="yes" rendernode="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:03:00.0-render"/> > </graphics> > > =========================================================================== > > # apt update && apt update && apt full-upgrade --autoremove -y && apt > autoremove -y && apt clean > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing-security > InRelease > Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease > Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-updates InRelease > Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-backports InRelease > All packages are up to date. > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing-security > InRelease > Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease > Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-updates InRelease > Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-backports InRelease > All packages are up to date. > Summary: > Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 > Summary: > Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 > > # lsb_release -a > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid > Release: n/a > Codename: trixie > > # uname -r > 6.11.10-amd64 > > # env | grep -E -i 'x11|xorg|wayland|plasma' > DESKTOP_SESSION=plasmawayland > > MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1004.slice/user@1004.service > /session.slice/plasma-plasmashell.service/memory.pressure > WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 > PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING=1 > QT_WAYLAND_FORCE_DPI=96 > > # lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E '(3D|VGA)' > 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Red Hat, Inc. 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