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DE agnostic problems on login

I have an old laptop (Lenovo Y70-70) on which I wanted to install artix, but i've encountered a visual glitch on login that makes it unusable.

First I tried with a KDE Plasma image, which got the glitch the moment SDDM started, after that I tried with xfce, which worked fine, installed properly, but upon update and reboot, a similar glitch happens, but only after entering credentials for an x11 session (wayland session just kicks me back to login).

The visual glitch looks either like a starry sky with blue and pink dots, or pink/black barcodes, if that even says anything. Anyone know what's going on?

Re: DE agnostic problems on login

Reply #1 –
What kind of GPU does this laptop have exactly, some NVIDIA GTX card?
Asking because in general nvidia has some specific demands to work correctly.

artist
Linux is simple; use Artix, or Submit Your System To Evil Malicious D(a)emons

Re: DE agnostic problems on login

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Artist – on
What kind of GPU does this laptop have exactly, some NVIDIA GTX card?
Asking because in general nvidia has some specific demands to work correctly.

artist

Yeah, it has a GTX 860M. The demands must be recent because the install images are both from august '24, and xfce works fine until it's updated, but KDE doesn't work at all (however I remember the '23 KDE iso worked).

Re: DE agnostic problems on login

Reply #3 –
Wayland requirements for Nvidia are described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Basic_support

In case the problem persists then provide details about the installed related packages, setup, etc.

artist
Linux is simple; use Artix, or Submit Your System To Evil Malicious D(a)emons
 

Re: DE agnostic problems on login

Reply #4 –
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Wayland requirements for Nvidia are described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Basic_support

In case the problem persists then provide details about the installed related packages, setup, etc.

artist

"fbdev is specifically a hard requirement on Linux 6.11 and later, but it is currently unclear whether this is intended behavior or a bug"

This was it, thanks! Also explains the recency of the problem