Bug#843693: Fwd: Re: Bug#843693: sddm: starting sddm results in white screen with active cursor and keyboard
Sincere apologies for not sending this properly before. I thought I
received an acknowledgment from the bug system, but I must have sent
only to Maximiliano.
Forgive the delay in sending this information properly.
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Subject: Re: Bug#843693: sddm: starting sddm results in white screen
with active cursor and keyboard
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 20:09:50 -0500
From: Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>
To: Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org>
On 11/08/2016 05:48 PM, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
Control: severity -1 important
¡Hola Jape!
Hello, Maximiliano!
ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.8.2-1
The breeze theme causes sddm to use the composite mode, this has caused issues
with certain graphical cards in the past. Could you try installing
sddm-theme-maui and removing sddm-theme-breeze?
Also, could you share the output of:
lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
Happy hacking,
# lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV17
[GeForce4 MX 440] [10de:0171] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]
[1043:a000]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at ef800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
I did use apt to install sddm-theme-maui 0.13.0-1 and to purge
sddm-theme-breeze.
I used dpkg-reconfigure to switch from xdm back to sddm, but I still am
getting a white screen. Mouse cursor is present and reacts to mouse
movement, and keyboard is functional (can be used to cycle through
virtual terminals).
Other systems here are not having this trouble with sddm, so I can
certainly believe that the old nvidia card is the source of the trouble.
Please let me know if I can provide any more information.
Best regards,
Jape
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