10 Jun
2023
10 Jun
'23
4:11 p.m.
Felix Miata composed on 2023-06-10 11:46 (UTC-0400):
jacobheinrich composed on 2023-06-10 14:51 (UTC):
> Hey everyone, sorry if this is the wrong place. I
am having issues with TDM on my Debian install, it never wants to start x. When I use
startx it loads trinity (with broken transparency), but I cant get TDM to work at all.
> [ 4.840] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such
file or directory
This message is because of X trying to start too soon,
because /dev/dri/card0
hasn't yet been created by whatever kernel or driver action populates /dev/. It
has nothing to do directly with TDE/TDM. I see it happen also with KDM3, and have
been for going on 2 years[1], without any progress in determining why.
Instead of using startx, try systemctl restart TDM,
and it will probably work, and
you may find X using /dev/dri/card1 instead of card0.
[1]
<https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188954>
Problem is not limited to openSUSE, but is where I discovered the problem and
consequently filed bug reports.
Forcing inclusion of KMS module in initrd may be a workaround:
<https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206316>
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