Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 06:19:10 BST Dale wrote: >> William Kenworthy wrote: >>> ... >>> >>>> Now to ponder what comes next. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>> Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an >>> xorg.conf for nvidia? Have you followed the gentoo Xorg guide where >>> it says to try first without that file? I doubt the knoppix etc use a >>> conf file and so must depend on the auto detection. >>> >>> Based on my own experience I can say using an xorg.conf (though it was >>> a radeon card) is an easy way to shoot yourself in the foot! >>> >>> BillK >> At first I did not have a xorg.conf file. When it didn't work right, I >> tried creating one to see if it would work. It didn't work with or >> without one. > Yes, but at first you were trying to launch a Wayland session. > > Did you also try to launch an X11 session without an xorg.conf file? Any > changes you need to include non-default settings should be added under /etc/ > X11/xorg.conf.d/. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Configuration > > You should at least try to launch a X11 session using a console and see what > is printed out on the CLI after you exit (or if it crashes). > > ~ $ exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11
I tried every combination I could think of. It seems the more I tried, the worse the failure got. Anyway, I've started a fresh install. I fixed my partition boo boo. I didn't need much of anything except to just get a fresh start so I used the zap feature of gdisk. After that, I used cgdisk to set up everything else, making sure the efi partition was ef00 and had the old fat type partition on it. Or was it vfat? Whatever the docs said. I copy and paste some of it except for the partition info. I did notice one thing, I copied some USE flags over from my current rig. I found some that might not should have been copied over before. I wonder if that could have caused a problem or two. I realized I chose the merged /usr stage3 but had split-usr USE flag in make.conf. That was one I remembered. There was a couple others as well. Right now, I'm warming up that thermal paste some more. ROFL Dale :-) :-)
