Re: SDDM lost display monitor

[Facundo Aguilera <budinero@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Facundo Aguilera <budinero@gmail.com> wrote:
> Problems with nvidia too.
>
>> I've been studding this and got plasma 5 to kind of work, it seems the
>> nvidia driver will not work using plasma 5 with opengl or xrender, why I
>> have no idea, do you?  Nvidia works with Sid and kde 4.
>
>>
>> Plasma 5 works with the nouveau driver but only in xrender, crashes using
>> opengl. Also I have two monitors and I'm unable to save my monitor settings,
>> having to setup monitors on each boot. I'm willing to try different ideas to
>> fix these problems if there is a developer working on this with some ideas
>> for me to try?
>>
>
> sddm works here with the nvidia driver, but also changes the screen
> resolution (uses 1024x768 instead of 1440x900) and is very slow to
> start. With kdm the screen resolution is not changed and startup speed
> is normal.
>
> Plasma 5 also starts with the 1024x768 resolution. It is working with
> the nvidia driver by changing to xrender in the kwinrc file. OpenGL
> 2.0 is unstable and OpenGL 3.1 is very slow (for example, it takes
> about 5 min to show the systemsettings window). I'm also unable so
> save the monitor resolution.
>

Testing a little more, I found that nvidia driver (legacy-304xx)  is
working with the EGL OpenGL interface. GLX is not working with plasma
5. The other problems disappeared, I don't know why...


Facundo