From jbranso at fastmail.com Sun Sep 23 16:35:49 2018 From: jbranso at fastmail.com (Joshua Branson) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 12:35:49 -0400 Subject: [Assist] GDM.service is not working Message-ID: <87d0t4tbmi.fsf@fastmail.com> Hello, I'm using a Macbook 7,1. On booting gdm appears to load, but the screen still goes black and a cursor in the top left of the screen blinks indefinitely. Nothing graphical appears. I can start awesome without trouble, but I can't seem to get gdm to work properly. How can I trouble shoot this? Thanks, Joshua From nils.andre.chang at gmail.com Sun Sep 30 18:54:18 2018 From: nils.andre.chang at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Nils_ANDR=c3=89-CHANG?=) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:54:18 +0100 Subject: [Assist] GDM.service is not working In-Reply-To: <87d0t4tbmi.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87d0t4tbmi.fsf@fastmail.com> Message-ID: Did you try: systemctl enable gdm ? Since you get a black screen I guess you did something but I can't tell you what you did. Please give more? information in order for anyone to help efficiently. Nils On 23/09/18 17:35, Joshua Branson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using a Macbook 7,1. On booting gdm appears to load, but the screen > still goes black and a cursor in the top left of the screen blinks > indefinitely. Nothing graphical appears. > > I can start awesome without trouble, but I can't seem to get gdm to work > properly. > > > How can I trouble shoot this? > > Thanks, > > Joshua > _______________________________________________ > Assist mailing list > Assist at lists.parabola.nu > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/assist From lapointe.jonathan at gmail.com Sun Sep 30 19:16:36 2018 From: lapointe.jonathan at gmail.com (Jonathan Lapointe) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:16:36 -0400 Subject: [Assist] Gaming system for linux Message-ID: It is a way to build a linux gaming machine with parabola or should it be only possible under archlinux, ubuntu or else. I heard that amd has made good advance on opensource driver, could it be possible to have such videocard on parabola. rx 560 dont seem a good fit on h-node but maybe someone did mistake. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bill-auger at peers.community Sun Sep 30 19:32:29 2018 From: bill-auger at peers.community (bill-auger) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:32:29 -0400 Subject: [Assist] GDM.service is not working In-Reply-To: References: <87d0t4tbmi.fsf@fastmail.com> Message-ID: <20180930153229.311f4e90@peers.community> this would take a good deal of time to give troubleshooting advice by email - the thing to do is first to eliminate GDM from the equation and see if you can start X from the command line, then read the X error log if it fails - if that works, then try starting a GNOME session from the command line - if that works. then you can probably stop there and declare success; as a DM is not really necessary for most people - if you can not get GNOME working either, i would suggest using something lighter like LXDE - of course, it would be good to find out exactly why GNOME wont start and fix it, if that the case; but it's unlikely that would happen via email - someone would need to be able to reproduce the same problem you see - off-hand, i dont know anyone who uses GNOME on parabola some key information would be: * how did you install parabola? * did you install systemd or openrc? * what is your computer's architecture? * has parabola ever worked on that same computer? * has parabola + GNOME ever worked on that same computer? * has parabola + LXDE ever worked on that same computer? From bill-auger at peers.community Sun Sep 30 19:42:09 2018 From: bill-auger at peers.community (bill-auger) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:42:09 -0400 Subject: [Assist] Gaming system for linux In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180930154209.4649112c@peers.community> the only question that is asking is whether or not your video card's hardware acceleration works with the free driver - h-node is the best resource of information about that - most games will play just fine with any video card without hardware acceleration the correct answer to that question is: "try it and see" - that is very very easy to do - the information on h-node is only as good as the willingness of people (like you) to add information to it - if the free driver works for you (or not), then you could add that information to the h-node database for the benefit of the next person From nils.andre.chang at gmail.com Sun Sep 30 20:18:12 2018 From: nils.andre.chang at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Nils_ANDR=C3=89=2DCHANG?=) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:18:12 +0100 Subject: [Assist] Gaming system for linux In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: May I also mention that rare are the free "good games". And that if you know some could you share with me the free games you know. On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:18 Jonathan Lapointe, wrote: > It is a way to build a linux gaming machine with parabola or should it be > only possible under archlinux, ubuntu or else. I heard that amd has made > good advance on opensource driver, could it be possible to have such > videocard on parabola. rx 560 dont seem a good fit on h-node but maybe > someone did mistake. > _______________________________________________ > Assist mailing list > Assist at lists.parabola.nu > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/assist > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bill-auger at peers.community Sun Sep 30 22:15:32 2018 From: bill-auger at peers.community (bill-auger) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:15:32 -0400 Subject: [Assist] Gaming system for linux In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180930181532.11eb3620@peers.community> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:18:12 +0100 Nils wrote: > May I also mention that rare are the free "good games". if by "good games" you mean "cost millions to produce and is proprietary - and only runs on proprietary hardware on proprietary operating systems", then no, you may not mention that :) - "good" is a relative concept - IMHO games that have all source code and artwork sources freely distributable are inherently "better" than any that do not - that is just my personal opinion however, yours may differ, depending on your personal priorities this question in the OP is asked far too often and this response, even if offered as a lament, is essentially a straw-man argument - those "good games" as youdeclared them are almost exclusively proprietary commercial software - GNU and Linux were not created to be platforms for proprietary commercial software to thrive on - they were created to make computing widely available and unfettered by market forces; primarily for the benefit of the users, and not necessarily software vendors or hardware manufacturers - those "good games" of which you speak are only good because they are extremely profitable, and that is possible because they (and the graphics cards they target) are extremely proprietary and encumbered by DRM mechanisms, and so the businesses that make them can afford to pour massive resources into their creation, licensing, and marketing (dont forget the marketing); which over-shadows the efforts of any "indies" regardless of their talents and hinders their momentum for that reason alone, no one should expect GNU/Linux to run that sort of software or to support those opaque hardware devices; nor should that be seen as any great defect - if this disappoints anyone, it is only due to their addiction to proprietary software and hardware; which is itself, at the very core of how that disappointing situation came to be in the first place, and how it is perpetuated - that very disappointment is itself, a self-fulfilling prophecy, akin to its own endorsement gamers who want to be "libre" are in a very lonely and conflicted position at this point in time - people have created libre gaming platforms, and not enough people bought into them to make them popular and attractive enough for the "snowball effect" to kick in thats all there is to it - this is not in any way, a failure of GNU or Linux - if there is any failure at all, it is the failure of gamers to reject the methodology that creates those "good games" for PCs and proprietary PC hardware - today, that would mean *entirely* rejecting those so-called "A A class PC games" and the proprietary PC hardware that enables them to claim their "upper-class" status i so tire of answering to this - the answer is simple - if you want to play expensive proprietary video games, then buy an expensive video game console which is designed for exactly that purpose; and dont expect to do any real "computing" with it - if you want a freely distributable and customizable operating system for the purpose of real meaningful computing, then that is something entirely different - it is not even reasonable to expect those to be the same thing