Hyprland displaying black screen | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:40 AM

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Hi! I'm trying out Arch on VirtualBox (intel + nvidia on host machine) and I'm having issue with Hyprland showing a black screen with only basic instructions on top (see attached screenshot). I have installed it both by hand and using archinstall script with the same result. 3D acceleration in VBox is enabled, I have kitty, gtk3, fonts installed. Gnome is working fine. Issue occurs both when launching from tty, gdm and sddm. Replacing kitty with alacritty doesn't change the behavior. I also tried hyprland-git from AUR, same thing. What am I missing?

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:41 AM

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This is not error

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:41 AM

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I forgot to mention that when I use super+q I see animation but kitty is not opening.

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:41 AM

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Just remove following line in hyprland.conf

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:42 AM

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Nothing changes.

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:42 AM

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Is kitty installed

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:42 AM

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Kitty, alacritty - same thing, please see my post.

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:44 AM

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check keybindings

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can you provide all your hyprland conf here

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:47 AM

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It's default conf. I only removed autogen again and this is what I get.

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:48 AM

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OK tell me Is that everything ok before removing that autogen

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Before changes is everything working fine?

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:49 AM

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No it never worked sadcat

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:49 AM

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wayland or x11

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:50 AM

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Wayland (when I installed manually, and I assume archinstall also have it as default).

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:51 AM

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maybe archinstall problem, some older version or version mismatch or any other error in there

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:51 AM

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I use 2024.09.01 iso

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:51 AM

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or since you're using Intel, then probably a driver issue

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:52 AM

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My guess it's probably VBox related

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:52 AM

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That's also and nvidia sucks

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:52 AM

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But I dont' have idea what it's anymore

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:52 AM

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Yeah mosty Nvidia I think

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:52 AM

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I don't have any Radeon on hand to test it

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:53 AM

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or try disabling 3d accln

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:53 AM

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Ok let me check blobcatthumbup

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:53 AM

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It's seems like renderring issue to me

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Do you installed proper nvidia packages for it

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:54 AM

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But gnome wayland works smooth like butter

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I selected virtualbox drivers in archinstall now

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I'm not sure if nvidia drivers will work on vm

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There is no direct passtrough

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:55 AM

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Hyprland had an issue with Nvidia, if not properly configured

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You have to do bit of research regrading this issue

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:56 AM

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With 3d acc disabled hyprland crashes and return to sddm

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I may try changing graphics controller in vbox

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:57 AM

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can you install arch manually and install proper nvidia drivers

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 10:57 AM

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junior mauve I may try changing graphics controller in vbox

try it

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 10:59 AM

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oh it worked!

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tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 11:00 AM

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Nice...

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 11:00 AM

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It's slow as f but it's displaying text

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So we know where is the issue

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 11:00 AM

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graphics

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What do you exactly change in there

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 11:02 AM

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I used "VBoxSVGA" instead "VMSVGA" as graphic controller in VirtualBox

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I will try searching for VMSVGA! Thanks a lot for your support so far!

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 11:05 AM

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VBoxSVGA

This provides a hybrid device that works like VMSVGA (including its new 3D acceleration capabilities), but reports the same old PCI VID:PID as VBoxVGA.

This is the default for Windows guests.
The advantage of this mode is that you can upgrade existing VMs (which previously used VBoxVGA and had the VirtualBox Video driver installed) and they don't lose their graphics in the process – they still see the same device, until you upgrade the "guest additions" at any later time to enable 3D acceleration.
Also, because it's still VMware SVGA emulated by VirtualBox, choosing this option and using the VirtualBox driver may still have advantages over the VMware one, e.g. allow to make use of VirtualBox-specific additional features.

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Yeah this is what I found

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 11:07 AM

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Hmm yeah but virtualbox was complaining that I can't have 3d acc enabled for it

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I'm going trough https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualBox/Install_Arch_Linux_as_a_guest (I'm ashamed that I didn't found it before somehow)

Install Arch Linux as a guest

tardy seal Sep 3, 2024, 11:08 AM

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Mark this issue as SOLVED

junior mauve Sep 3, 2024, 11:09 AM