Fresh Galileo install can't get Wayland to work? GPD Win Max 2

Desktop Environments Plasma
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I just installed a fresh version of galileo on my laptop and cannot get wayland to work.

When I select wayland in the login screen and try and log in it goes to a blinking curser at the top left for 5 seconds, then it goes straight back to the login screen. When I select X11 it works like normal though.

System specs:

GPD Win Max 2 laptop with 6800u cpu and integrated gpu.

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Try early KMS loading admgpu as described in the wiki.

Don’t forget to run sudo dracut-rebuild after adding the config file.

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Holidays here. Downloaded the latest ISO, chose KDE offline (as I am about to switch from Gnome anyway) and installed `plasma-wayland-session. The Wayland session can’t be started from SDDM with the exact same behaviour as described by @icedigger

Intel integrated GPU here. Never had issues with Wayland from Gnome or KDE in the past.

  • If I select a different display manager like GDM, starting the Wayland Plasma session works.
  • If I CTRL-ALT-F3 into VT3 and run startplasma-wayland the Wayland session also works.

So it’s SDDM which can’t start a Wayland Plasma session.

I am happy to share any log files.

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If gdm worked for sddm might try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Running_under_Wayland

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So two weeks later no update for sddm and still no way to start wayland from sddm. How can I report bugs upstream? I do not even know where the error message as why the session fails to start can be collected.

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Do you have command
exec startx
in your ~/.bash_profile?
If so, remove it.

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$ pacman -Q | grep wayland
kwayland-integration 5.27.10-1
kwayland5 5.114.0-1
plasma-wayland-session 5.27.10-2
qt5-wayland 5.15.12+kde+r61-1
wayland 1.22.0-1
wayland-protocols 1.32-1
wayland-utils 1.2.0-1
xorg-xwayland 23.2.3-1

Above are all the packages necessary to run wayland on KDE Plasma. Make sure you have them all installed.

Pudge

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THIS!

Hero of the day! I commented out startx and now I can start buttery smooth from sddm without the crutch Ctrl-Alt-F3, login on the terminal and executing startplasma-wayland

Seems like a packaging issue then worth to be tackled? I genuinely wonder why no one else stumbled into that issue.

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Thank you for your response, I do NOT have wayland-protocols installed.

As I do not witness any issues when working with wayland, I will not blindly install this dependency for now.

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It has been fixed for the next ISO. The issue was a wrong config file was copied to the target when installing offline. X11 worked OK but wayland didn’t.

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