Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 13:23 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > AFAIK neither of these '3D acceleration' modes are useful for games. To > > use the Nvidia drivers in the VM guest the only option is to pass the > > GPU card directly through to the VM. This means masking it (i.e. > > blacklisting) in Li

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/2/19 11:00 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 20:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Note that if you actually want to use the Nvidia card to its full capability within a VM, you need to use GPU passthrough. AFAIK this currently cannot be done in VMware or Virtual Box, only o

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 20:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Note that if you actually want to use the Nvidia card to its full > > capability within a VM, you need to use GPU passthrough. AFAIK this > > currently cannot be done in VMware or Virtual Box, only on KVM/QEMU. > > It's something of a has

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/2/19 11:22 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 22:32 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/2/19 9:48 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/2

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/2/19 11:28 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 23:00 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Putting the following section in xorg.conf caused Gnome under Xorg to start with the resolution of the Maximized vmware player, which was 1600x844, as desired. KDE did not start at the resolu

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 23:00 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Putting the following section in xorg.conf caused Gnome under Xorg to > start with the resolution of the Maximized vmware player, which was > 1600x844, as desired. KDE did not start at the resolution of 1600x844, > instead starting at 64

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 22:32 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 21/2/19 9:48 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > > On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Mor

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/2/19 10:32 pm, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/2/19 9:48 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: lspci provides the followi

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/2/19 9:48 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: lspci provides the following output for the device: 00:0f.0 VGA compa

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: lspci provides the following output for the device: 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMw

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > lspci provides the following output for the device: > > > > > > 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter > > > > As Patrick pointe

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: lspci provides the following output for the device: 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device.  You can find out which driver is actua

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/20/19 12:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/20/2019 12:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device.  You can find out which driver is actually handling it, by running "lspci -v". There will be a line with "Kernel driver in use:". Or, just run lspci |

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/20/2019 12:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device.  You can find out which driver is actually handling it, by running "lspci -v". There will be a line with "Kernel driver in use:". Or, just run lspci | grep VGA and find out right there. ___

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: lspci provides the following output for the device: 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device. You can find out which driver is actually handling it, by running "lspci -v".

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 20:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 20/2/19 4:55 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2/19/19 1:37 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > I found the Xorg log and found the issue, Xorg couldn't find any > > > screens to use with the Nvidia driver. Below is the data on the > > > chipse

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/2/19 4:55 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/19/19 1:37 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I found the Xorg log and found the issue, Xorg couldn't find any screens to use with the Nvidia driver. Below is the data on the chipset that Xorg thinks is available. (--) PCI:*(0@0:15:0) 15ad:0405:15ad:0405 re

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/19/19 1:37 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I found the Xorg log and found the issue, Xorg couldn't find any screens to use with the Nvidia driver. Below is the data on the chipset that Xorg thinks is available. (--) PCI:*(0@0:15:0) 15ad:0405:15ad:0405 rev 0, Mem @ 0xe800/134217728, 0xfe000

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/2/19 7:44 pm, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/2/19 7:17 pm, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/2/19 4:25 am, Rex Dieter wrote: Stephen Morris wrote: Given that it seems that F29 is standardizing on Wayland instead of Xorg, why doesn't the KDE-desktop-environment group also install this package to

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/2/19 7:17 pm, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/2/19 4:25 am, Rex Dieter wrote: Stephen Morris wrote: Given that it seems that F29 is standardizing on Wayland instead of Xorg, why doesn't the KDE-desktop-environment group also install this package to provide the needed Wayland support so KDE

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/2/19 4:25 am, Rex Dieter wrote: Stephen Morris wrote: Given that it seems that F29 is standardizing on Wayland instead of Xorg, why doesn't the KDE-desktop-environment group also install this package to provide the needed Wayland support so KDE can be started under Wayland, rather than re

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/19 11:49 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 17:51 +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, In order to install the KDE Desktop I used DNF to install the

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > Given that it seems that F29 is standardizing > on Wayland instead of Xorg, why doesn't the KDE-desktop-environment > group also install this package to provide the needed Wayland support so > KDE can be started under Wayland, rather than require the user to > install it ma

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 17:51 +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In order to install the KDE Desktop I used DNF to install the > > > KDE-desktop-environmen

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In order to install the KDE Desktop I used DNF to install the > > KDE-desktop-environment group, which place a plasma entry in the desktop > > manager deskto

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > > In order to install the KDE Desktop I used DNF to install the > KDE-desktop-environment group, which place a plasma entry in the desktop > manager desktop list, but selecting this entry did not boot into KDE, it > just cont

KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     In order to install the KDE Desktop I used DNF to install the KDE-desktop-environment group, which place a plasma entry in the desktop manager desktop list, but selecting this entry did not boot into KDE, it just continued to display the Desktop Manager. It wasn't until I manually ins