On 31 October 2015 at 16:57, Carlos Kosloff wrote:
> > Indeed, my card uses nvidia and glx-alternative-nvidia is 0.5.1. > So is glx-diversions and glx-alternative-mesa. > What to do? There is no upgrade for these packages in testing. > ------------------------------ > On 10/31/2015 10:48 AM, Sami Erjomaa wrote: > > On 31 October 2015 at 16:30, Carlos Kosloff wrote: > >> If you follow this list you are aware of my efforts to get kde to start >> normally. >> I am aware that many of you have succeeded, maybe some did not, I am >> among the latter. >> Different systems and hardware react differently, I have a computer that >> works fine with sddm, but in my main system sddm throws a black screen, and >> both have similar configurations. >> My question is: can somebody help with making kde start normally? >> So far no dm has worked, I am forced to start kde with "startx startkde". >> Thank you. >> ------------------------------ >> > Hi, > > Do you have a Nvidia card on the non-working computer? If you have and > glx-alternatives is <0.6.1 you might be affected by this bug > https://bugs.debian.org/799948 > > > I'm not sure if that bug is in 0.5.1. It was in 0.6.0. What worked for me was to add user sddm to video group in /etc/group
