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Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:29:00 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:28:59 +0100 From: Ian Smith To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org Cc: Ian Smith Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi: lightdm does not start an X session Message-ID: <20250630112859.59daa29f@bonsai.doitto.me.uk> Organization: none X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.19.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) In-Reply-To: <20250625091722.09e8bb82@bonsai.doitto.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:xkL6/cJT/afA6wFFIX8S8fTobstQ0T5bDMAJF7o8IJRBHQy7Yf7 gJCcS9fe6OQAcG7It4MqluaFH2nz7HAzNjdJCLh31s/2rg4AkI49hxIY6hEeCFd5gLIuQMw 65MfyzaLWCVgp3gthk8+HIPrNaAsfr+iyxBUk9VAmHuAujueqpbEHj109OHJDPaW3fVhhL6 /eK7FlkTHJ/2puhCdrjzQ== X-Spam-Flag: NO UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:SnsJFXN08iM=;MFxZF1D4HTP6E/cVHP+EHmrLseW iT+mSnKNVFREfmvA4t+8jv8k0rV8+EAr68/KTkwBJLFVhmF3DcJhiMlHpQVPxGdCy4+1WxtU5 zobJgEdCMT4lHg6tQchKtSi9Etb1rHMO1E1SjIL5/LBG8UorovLyFS0Q6mAIKoQH8dMKp+xSi J6QmOHV2lx7sXtFCtVhYQ1IxkPnT7+0q7kryS5Vw97NpX9xZSApH/6L15/PnH059DVHkSKVLf yXOhX2y6/Ut64RWFYSeiGteNUumTyTSDo4PrVz17vcpYvY8eom9vgrvfAYUgMgt+TW6VXwn7R QcplwRUkR3KpqPlQZKbwbiFv87OAmebsdzWl0JcCOcpJOwhkXOLN6uwO0o4va7u9uGP3D0xfG yFEyQT9LZtAw3uXXHvLBILKaByqMyPxKjfIK2fFacNJYHwr77P3P4qWWay6FjqJz4i7wSIhbG 4YcxcYEM5YrjUq75TDfxoWZY5pGFVJ3OrjJ58I1arUHYYMc/hLqTZ0rLkIIhcl5yyMC5TEkut gqiqz8FtyAFLqamib+g9nx7kuECz3JHp8qPOPeyZRYrNWtcjNDdFbysWdcPDYfviGSwhPU8gO a1r3Ra5Y/NSsJIueUt0GCtr+OhqSqxsdsob5vk4OtoJhZ09sVUgZOiB3Q8Gc7Ob+sWYJLm9MB LknMUuyAdAGE5casOZW80Z4oDq4F2pY8Z3lKIXDpz2qnhrsCfz80UbCpTQxNqLjqvET3KReCB Mfrbvm0aLzbH2R9hO7q7diD7iFon2RT6kViEg2in5KDDB8Rg1qI41U6Rze2iBuX3BJmVTZMUn 0PxXF/nyRUkHzfE3hdPmMbEoQpUq5Mk+BqFz3JkCB8R3XnFWQ30gbGz+KxNARDncVbT9dsTPa 0HRzqnClthe1Xwpqz/JiovK0eZoKM5aFL4WaxB1CD9N/2iC64DvEVuZL3ntpckWn1MQcRzEcl TDtOB3QhGpCXUNTY0dgFOI6doLOZKJM/n3rDWR4C+I2blcb4Ba57j1vIfBTDgrumQqWthPENy ayQJRlS33s15APHDYHW+OgtI+UJvbmPaeZF9tISpDecwRwL1pQAFWQhDrih/90+jJhBrcx7ot ernNvRD+xd0FR6R9Gb34WiQ3OhmzMgOaBzMMMoeelS0pxoF9H1PsTtklAWDjGo6fLpHWNcqRa pGTP9AZnzyVR4e9Vcq/zk54jCk0Vspg3s8oYrYPNJRSiKKRzw44BYfPcD36z9tTdq/MznPDxs V1QcnJGbFtHEf8KwfRIGDe0AvBqnJbJ1NJCYYcghD+KUh0D4zanipJfieo92Z8A7Sy4/xx6rp TTwF/eiYJVIKveNozdoOyAZFGypcXFzSk6ivek69coDMpc2t//PateRuO7r0I/d8N2bnpQtqK WBoTLfZsmMo91TpUXPw1E6s5O4m1RVlRtgU0Gp0fI8dKIFvwc6dBbW862UmG893K1bvJJDDWc IzMvG2/qTJpQwD7CCDDbpw8HzV42s026ePbBgE08qGrrl6tnca/hbUD8fRiohytD70svqnQJP YOMzkkkeJeu+Fc9cWou3hgFH6B7OVAH0nbZMuqGwxl5i5Z26cwNNdGXy0T7yz87TkX+oEM2SV 6m5xUdXZWEAr2I1G9NOOvoS//r+KaU9JBW1DPWU1ZlD2M3f4cj2u/58Vuk0HqzmoNNjWDciDm LytAfa7nArkKFFnfnYTqPfZCDgqQszGrpo8vmwQLGm0RKfUUpyDFNMfkbLxowYl9O544Ew+PS ILlc6rdEEJbOsJJ4YBHLcQmu8uFWczVz8hla7wgexz1sVUclVuvDPPNDB6mJmwOg5ouRnHSia ZmDctcYbFkAMMWo33fw8YOTMZzJCqTWJOm28XRylUptQMa+WCvJz6/HmiXCsmcgHeDXUPV9dv gFmeY5rPhbBc8wcWxKoZa+jDr7IIRcmdxjsB3ghbXeVZMMX/n4zDJBvE5kgsTMnbkZfyjVJdI Lp48HgjZZBGie5magS4+n9bRzF4yKleWL/ZkFJiu87otp5vVDXpA3bzIk7S3KUvuLjS1d9y3n tUgbiFyFo1yuu3r6GCv873glk9Hkw8lqVPVnTv4MIqE+zowGlTZN8pzQGP+jXsYdQA/BVTlWv 2vxTt6/H1p/+OrauWRfVXLRce/jlAwAIwqxD28hXXmjxz2RAjC9Gb/6O1Y7ExIR5fcnsmNcEr vemdq3pHKusU2ovJ1UtnvBI+CEONGzSTXkHw6oTs/LI3FHv5fFNaU54t7h9EEjASe2oWbjCHd 944+KALjhxwJdxxRSBzXzvEN9W4HNUEwLar5zaietVxpj2NmIIs43EaNJBSVDbq5huaL1BVp0 8q9A2AfwASmJl3EYCbWxS0csm0zJ8ufePvw6QKZvuLyu1nrfjSNlmbh+GGJzFSglLzX1xoCVU NHmd4QET5qCMLOVQex7XkyW56zsKMEc6yxOfLDFJPqg29VdBugRzTzHi0Rg9be0zt3KpBqZp9 l0EI4nG5t9ai/rYrbDvHwmnHJA8tp2TamamnZcZUxu10tL77q12ewYPUGohawCJV6VZfzpZxC 4vNO4+9RW9Y1yJlIufYHZC3whk4U/CBIZqGcwFkO75FOgOV0ML8fO1KkaTdtp9YY2BgXxLRpW GsA7qFYctlocv4uUzYw5dP5ttBJRoOsf3bmaME5IUu5ZlYdO9IDUZXWMQdEUue9/ikoeVNP2j O5UN5e6X6SYo4Fbfe6YUA028mlfW8jvNTgyspj8m8rino42tWynTHWSjHS89jPp9JsKAkugdh PEkw2v3aM0JQkpuz4mzKGgJZZ093/AOWrtVl+k5XyvZWQHkD/jdjmJgleZy7CT87IsGHxtsgT u+OZd6D4zMYLHfNI6PuyEQ5WQvZKR/hWs6C0f+RbghUU7d8yv9SRPwp7WzDnn8oyaduYznnRj C3kkMMupOnypKIVgwG3hh8YntudAjggLgdB/EC/zYEJQyRE+xGTeleBxyy5PcP1H75A11IouB 5hinJ5GtleeNOnmveWpu7UAqx2DiJw1ciKk6rEFm5tKRflwhEjWd4E/4M8XPQxBGukYS7gafV sMR/u5A8NqISl+hI9e7wm4JpdwgRjVl4Ah96F850B8N2JarSrwUYwWFyfRQm9S0uO6StDcAMT 6zNd4IK4amhJt51P6Q2SKAGZeKsd4yzn9j/Xz6u/PqpMe+8LLUpfZj8hfpEmp5s8sQMor+E9Y apA1ml6ckEc0en7jhq53AVhLNMPkXSxoqWCXSn7JOY6CNsDsGW0Nugx1wFxrm8ppEPKUmvhqa FDjhT0YQCSZL479Cv93GoiOsjV0Z3kuVIeU2doXbDdEvyCOmax/muFnKS3ZYexNgIP+v8aMOf a7meYg3ypgAeZOa67mVSuG6DZo60zhj13F4VIF48bBdexOhAK+Nz3bWamfaUTCsa8mLHRAzml NL0UwSK0wQ38FYhOgFVhosf2ewTU+g19UguzSM0Sb/ttMTdEG4ROCLHbK/LFrGMEGeN7EUGeP 7T+2tbTanf2abeKGZvItB2W/dpMPkeIl/EqZZVVQXmMOcKNKGdrFg Hi Liam ;) Firstly, did you know that you can switch to X11 on PiOS using raspi-config? Back to the main thing, Alpine works fine on RPi 3 & 4. It is only PI5 and Pi500 that I had issues with. These were mostly display issues. 1) X will not work without adding a snippet something like: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-vc4.conf=20 Section "OutputClass" Identifier "vc4" MatchDriver "vc4" Driver "modesetting" Option "PrimaryGPU" "true" EndSection 2) You will also need to add a driver: $ doas apk add xf86-video-fbdev 3) Make sure you are using "full KMS" in /boot/usercfg.txt 4) There is also an issue where OpenRC messages are not displayed on 5 & 500 - add console=3Dtty1 to /boot/cmdline.txt. If any of thsi is unclear let me know. Cheers, Ian.