Dale, Sorry for top posting but I'm travelling and responding on my phone.
I don't think this is you hardware and probably not KDE. It's possibly some Gentoo-ish issue. To test and get a KDE config I would boot a Kubuntu flash drive and choose the 'Try it's option which installs nothing. If the GUI stays up then look at drivers and general config. I run Kubuntu on 5 machines, all with different hardware, and I've never had a failure that I did cause. I've installed Kubuntu on at least 20 machines over the last 6 or 7 machines and every one has booted first time. Give it a try. If it does fail then it's possibly something about your hardware but if the machine works as well as you say then I would buy you a cup of coffee if it's not Gentoo-bssed. Good luck, Mark On Fri, Jun 21, 2024, 12:03 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > On my new rig, I've got everything installed. I mostly been on a > console which has worked without issue. Now I've started using the GUI, > KDE, and I'm having issues. I wanted to run a command to generate a > xorg.conf file and it generate all the needed info regarding hardware > and such since the GUI wasn't working right without a config file. The > only one I found is the nvidia one. It is minimal at best. Anyway, > when I try to start display-manager, with or without a config file, I > get the sddm login. I login and if I just let it sit there, after a > minute or so, the monitor goes black. It is still powered up but > nothing on the screen at all. I've moved the mouse and pressed buttons > on the keyboard to make sure it isn't powering off but nothing. Also, > the resolution is pretty low too. It should run in 1080P easily. The > card supports 4K I think. The monitor tho has ran 1080P on my main rig > before, for years I might add. > > I used tail -f to watch a few error logs. I watched sddm, messages and > Xorg.0.log. The only thing that got added when the monitor went black > was this: > > > > Jun 21 13:27:41 Gentoo-1 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable > to read EDID for display device DP-3 > Jun 21 13:29:01 Gentoo-1 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable > to read EDID for display device LG Electronics W2253 (DP-3) > Jun 21 13:29:02 Gentoo-1 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable > to read EDID for display device DP-3 > Jun 21 13:29:03 Gentoo-1 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable > to read EDID for display device LG Electronics W2253 (DP-3) > > > If I let it sit for a good while, it comes back on, sort of. The plasma > panel thing on the bottom, where the app menu, clock and all is, doesn't > come back tho. Also, the background is just black, no picture like > usual. The only thing that shows up is gkrellm. I'm pretty sure plasma > died. I thought maybe it was heat, the fan isn't running on the video > card or something. Nvidia shows the card between 25 and 30C. The fan > nvidia says is at 34%. If that is correct, then the fan is running and > heat is not a issue. Out comes the flashlight and a mirror. Yep, fan > spinning. According to IR temp thingy, nothing even gets into the 90F > area. I think if it was heat, I'd see something getting hot with the IR > temp thing. > > There is two versions of Nvidia driver for this card in the tree. I've > tried both, no change at all. Screen goes black and after a while comes > back but most of the desktop has crashed. > > By the way, I ran the tail command over ssh. Sometimes when the monitor > goes black, it doesn't come back. I can use ssh to reboot and repeat tho. > > Did I miss something during the install? Does the error above cause > this problem? If so, how do I fix it? If you need info, just let me > know the command to run. I monitored all I could think of. The one > above is all I saw that showed a problem exists. Given this rig is > still in testing, I can reboot or anything else as needed. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
