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

[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 actually handling it, by running "lspci -v". 
> There will be a line with "Kernel driver in use:".

"lspci -v" gives me the following output:

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter (prog-if 00 
[VGA controller])
         Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
         I/O ports at 1070 [size=16]
         Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
         Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx
         Kernel modules: vmwgfx

This output is under Wayland. I have previously installed the nvidia 
proprietary driver from Negativo17 via dkms, and from what I can see 
from the Xorg log, Xorg is loading that driver and the corresponding glx 
module just before the message that Xorg can't find any display devices 
to use.

I also checked the xorg.conf file and it specifies to use the nvidia 
driver, should I change it to the above driver or is the above driver 
unique to Wayland?

regards,

Steve
> > I've checked whether hardware acceleration is active by running 
> > glxgears, which runs quite happily, so I'm assuming that hardware 
> > acceleration, as set by the vm configuration, is actually active, 
> > hence the nvidia driver is functioning, so I thought Xorg would be 
> > able to work with the nvidia driver quite happily.
>
> That doesn't tell you that there is hardware acceleration.  There is a 
> software 3D renderer available.  You can try running "glxinfo" to find 
> out what is being used.  I'm not sure what that will show under Wayland.
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