Bug#1008296: gdm3: No option to choose between gnome 42 wayland or x11, always goes x11

Sebastián Lacuesta sebastianlacuesta at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 06:11:46 GMT 2022


Package: gdm3
Version: 42.0-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: sebastianlacuesta at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

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When selecting Gnome session, there's no X11 nor Wayland option and always
starts an X11 session. I'm using an amd gpu with an nvidia discrete card.

nvidia-smi output:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.60.02    Driver Version: 510.60.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   43C    P8     5W /  N/A |      6MiB /  6144MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      5395      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I'd like to use the amd gpu with a wayland session and use the discrete card
only with chosen apps only.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (699, 'unstable'), (698, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=es_UY.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_UY.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_UY:es
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       22.07.5-1
ii  adduser                               3.121
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]        1.14.0-1
ii  dbus-bin                              1.14.0-1
ii  dbus-daemon                           1.14.0-1
ii  dconf-cli                             0.40.0-3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.40.0-3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.79
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        42.0-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     42.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                     42.0-1
ii  gnome-session-common                  42.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 42.1-1
ii  gnome-shell                           42.0-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.43.90-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             42.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                   22.07.5-1
ii  libaudit1                             1:3.0.7-1+b1
ii  libc6                                 2.33-7
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-8
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-8
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                   2.42.6+dfsg-2
ii  libgdm1                               42.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.72.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.72.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.24.33-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                        237-2
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.6.1-3
ii  libpam-modules                        1.4.0-11
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.4.0-11
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]               250.4-1
ii  libpam0g                              1.4.0-11
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.52.5+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libselinux1                           3.3-1+b2
ii  libsystemd0                           250.4-1
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.9-1
ii  libxcb1                               1.14-3
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              11.1.0
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             42.0-1
ii  policykit-1                           0.120-6
ii  procps                                2:3.3.17-7+b1
ii  systemd-sysv                          250.4-1
ii  tilix [x-terminal-emulator]           1.9.5-1
ii  ucf                                   3.0043
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+23
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+9
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           372-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core                       2.44.0-3
ii  desktop-base                       11.0.3
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]  42.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils                      7.7+5
ii  xserver-xephyr                     2:21.1.3-2+b1
ii  xserver-xorg                       1:7.7+23
ii  zenity                             3.41.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  40.0-3
pn  libpam-pkcs11         <none>
pn  libpam-sss            <none>
ii  orca                  42.0-1

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3



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