James Knott composed on 2024-01-24 17:21 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
No desktop ordinarily means your attempt to start a Plasma session failed. It could be taken to mean no login greeter appeared. Where are you at now? Still booting with nomodeset? Nomodeset is for troubleshooting, well short of full X functionality.
What I get is the no desktop login prompt.
This in overview means one of two things: 1-X11 won't start, so *DM can't start, or 2-X11 works, but your *DM (by default for Plasma installations: SDDM) doesn't Both of these /can/ result from using nomodeset, but usually it doesn't cause #1, and neither #2 for XDM, KDM3, LightDM (I believe), while with recent SDDM versions I suppose it could, and for GDM I have no idea. All of the above is reason behind my previous update-alternatives suggestion. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata