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Xlibre release 25.0.0.0 now available for testing

Xlibre release 25.0.0.0 is the first one since it was forked. It is now available in the galaxy-gremlins repository for testing.
Related information can be found on the Xlibre on Artix wiki page.

This topic is to discuss technical items, questions and issues related to Xlibre for Artix.

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Re: Xlibre release 25.0.0.0 now available for testing

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So far, so good.  :D

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Reply #2 –
All good here, been using it since the early days:

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What tool do you recommend for a VM?  I had great troubles trying to do this last time.

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I just tested with virt-manager and artix-community-gtk-openrc-xlibre-20250620-x86_64.iso  worked fine.

The install worked OK, but calamares seems to want a swap partition in the easy install mode. I could not find/see the option to not have that.

After booting from hd it all seemed to work OK.
 

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I didn't manage to make it work on the 470xx NVIDIA drivers yesterday, maybe I'll try again later when more NVIDIA workarounds appears.

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Quote from: Samireko – on
I didn't manage to make it work on the 470xx NVIDIA drivers yesterday, maybe I'll try again later when more NVIDIA workarounds appears.
Did you look in the log to see what the error was ?

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can't wait for this to get to a non gremlins repo so I can quit wayland  :D

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Quote from: terrorbyte – on
can't wait for this to get to a non gremlins repo so I can quit wayland  :D
You don't need to enable the repo. You can just download the needed packages and install them with pacman -U
Make sure you have copies of the current packages so you can switch straight back if you need to.
Of course this way you have to handle updates yourself but avoid pulling in other packages which may be in, or appear in, gremlins.

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Quote from: gripped – on
Did you look in the log to see what the error was ?

Xorg.0.log

Note that I'm using the dkms 470xx package from the AUR because the one in the Artix repos failed to build the needed modules for the kernels (including the vanilla kernels).

Btw, is it XLibre supposed to run as root or it can run in rootless mode too?

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Quote from: Samireko – on
Btw, is it XLibre supposed to run as root or it can run in rootless mode too?
It can run rootless if you use startx. I think it's root only from a display manager?

What Nvidia GPU do you have ?
Maybe try disabling the iGPU? Longshot but who knows.

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Quote from: gripped – on
It can run rootless if you use startx. I think it's root only from a display manager?

What Nvidia GPU do you have ?
Maybe try disabling the iGPU? Longshot but who knows.

I'm using a GeForce GT 710,  It's that kind of GPU with an integrated HDMI port, so I can't use/switch to the iGPU without using a VGA adapter (which I don't currently have).

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Xorg.0_No-Workaround.log


XLibre starts without the workaround in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xlibre.conf , but the performance is much worse compared to Xorg, and it seems that the NVIDIA driver doesn't manage to load properly (e.g, the Xfce 4 sensors applet can't detect the NVIDIA GPU while running on XLibre unlike Xorg).

Re: Xlibre release 25.0.0.0 now available for testing

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Quote from: Samireko – on
XLibre starts without the workaround in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xlibre.conf , but the performance is much worse compared to Xorg, and it seems that the NVIDIA driver doesn't manage to load properly (e.g, the Xfce 4 sensors applet can't detect the NVIDIA GPU while running on XLibre unlike Xorg).
Without the workaround the Nvidia driver exits (ABI mismatch) and X is using the iGPU instead hence the lower performance.
Maybe using the Nouveau open source driver might work?
Or maybe if you post an issue on the XLibre github you might have some luck ?

I was pleasantly surprised when they added support for the current Nvidia drivers so rapidly. But at first I think only the 575. drivers worked then I think another commit fixed 570. 

But they seem keen to support older hardware so someone might step up ?