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Distribution: Ubuntu & Various distros in Virtualbox
Posts: 37
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Black screen after login to KDE Plasma
Hi,
here is my setup:
ubuntu 22.04 host and slackware current guest in virtualbox 7.0.6
I connect with sddm (Plasma X11 or Plasma Wayland) and once connected I get a black screen
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
Posts: 1,009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by philippe972
Hi,
here is my setup:
ubuntu 22.04 host and slackware current guest in virtualbox 7.0.6
I connect with sddm (Plasma X11 or Plasma Wayland) and once connected I get a black screen
Thanks for help
that is not Slackware or Plasma 5 issue, but virtualbox that is using generic virtual video card. At this point I would try either older or newer (testing) virtualbox. Or get virtualbox that is not ubuntu modified.
Also, you can shutdown the VM, then, in the VirtualBox settings for it, go to Settings-->Display-->Graphics Controller and select one of the other options listed in the drop-down menu, then restart the VM. With luck, one of them will work.
Last edited by frankbell; 02-11-2023 at 08:13 PM.
Reason: clarity
A shared library file was missing
I installed the affected package and everything works perfectly now.
Thanks
OK, I got it. So, hundreds times on this forum was repeated: Do A Full Install Of Slackware, and yet you did a partial install, like a boss. You know what? The bosses do not asks for help, they offer solutions instead.
If you want your story to be useful to someone, please be kind to edit the thread title to something like "Ignoring hundred warnings present on this forum, I did a partial install of Slackware and I failed!"
Last edited by LuckyCyborg; 02-12-2023 at 10:42 AM.
OK, I got it. So, hundreds times on this forum was repeated: Do A Full Install Of Slackware, and yet you did a partial install, like a boss. You know what? The bosses do not asks for help, they offer solutions instead.
If you want your story to be useful to someone, please be kind to edit the thread title to something like "Ignoring hundred warnings present on this forum, I did a partial install of Slackware and I failed!"
with the recent libvpx issue, you will be surprise that a lot of people doesn't really read threads
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