Quade

  • Joined May 10, 2019
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  • In Pursuing Open Source Full-Time Development

    Hey everyone,

    I'm posting this in off-topic because it isn't strictly related to Solus, but I've decided to create a Patreon to pursue the goal of working on open source, desktop-focused software. It's become more obvious to me over the last several years that we're seeing various major players in the open source community shifting to "responsive design", mobile-focused applications, which actively regress in functionality and usability for home computing usage. Sophisticated desktop applications that don't shy away from putting features and functionality at your fingertips is something I intend to develop.

    I want to emphasize that this is me pursuing open source development full-time. Solus is not a formal, legal entity and is not accepting donations. When both @DataDrake and myself are in the position to create such entity, we will. That being said, my ability to work on open source full-time will benefit Solus, and this personal Patreon was opened with the full support of Bryan.

    • In How often do you use desktop icons?

      appmath Desktop icons are the best things ever and wonderfully represent a physical desktop with stuff on it.

      some fun desktop metaphors I found while looking at old GUIs a while ago 🙂

      • In Solus won't boot to greeter / login screen after installing updates

        Hey guys,

        I installed updates yesterday and now my system won't start properly. I am installing updates quite frequently, so it was probably caused by something in the update from yesterday (https://discuss.getsol.us/d/5036-solus-03-07-2020-sync-report).

        The following lines are in my lightdm logs:

        Process 1215 exited with return value 1
[...]
Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start

        Process 1215 is the x server.

        The Xorg.0.log tells me, that something is wrong with my nvidia drivers:

        (EE) NIVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
    system's kernel log for additional error messages and
    consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[the same thing three more times]
(EE) No devices detected.

        I don't know where to look for those logs. Does somebody know?

        In the sync report somebody else had problems with nvidia. When I run eopkg li | grep 'nvidia- I get the following:

        nvidia-390-glx-driver-modaliases
nvidia-glx-driver-32bit
nvidia-glx-driver-common
nvidia-glx-driver-current
nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases

        I have an nvidia gtx 970, in case that helps.

        I don't know where to go from here, so I would appreciate some help. Thanks for reading!

        PS.: Is there a way to upload my logs from the terminal?

        • In Emergency mode. How do I format the hard drive?

          If you are on an alternate machine where you can read the web, read this (I just bookmarked it for the sheer amount of emergency knowledge, plus it solved the problem): https://dev.getsol.us/T7284

          Couple similar threads to yours solved that last couple days, too. Good luck.