Other FreeBSD 15.0 - Hyprland Setup

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pbrazendale

Hi all,

I installed FreeBSD 15.0 and set it up with the Nvidia drivers and went initially with i3 which has been working fine.

I now want to try hyprland as I have seen people using it on 15.0 with success after earlier issues were sorted out.

Firstly let me say I know the Nvidia drivers and display is working as I have been using it with i3 to date.

I have followed the guide so far to install hyprland and the required utilities, in addition I also have dbus and seatd started as required by hyprland.

I don't use a display manger so boot using 'startx' from the command line, in my .xinitrc I have the following:

'exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session ck-launch-session hyprland'

However it fails to load and gives the following error:

'seatd[95257] 02"20:47.241 [ERROR] [common/terminal.c.207] Could not set VT mode to enable process switching: Operation not permitted'

Unsure of this error if anyone can assist, first time with hyprland.

Thanks
 
Hyprland - is a Wayland compositor, and it cannot be started via startx. The startx command is intended exclusively for X11 (X.Org).When you try to start Hyprland this way, a conflict occurs: startx tries to initialize the X server, and Hyprland, via seatd, tries to capture the terminal directly, which causes the terminal.c.207 error.
 
pbrazendale said:
Hi all,

I installed FreeBSD 15.0 and set it up with the Nvidia drivers and went initially with i3 which has been working fine.

I now want to try hyprland as I have seen people using it on 15.0 with success after earlier issues were sorted out.

Firstly let me say I know the Nvidia drivers and display is working as I have been using it with i3 to date.

I have followed the guide so far to install hyprland and the required utilities, in addition I also have dbus and seatd started as required by hyprland.

I don't use a display manger so boot using 'startx' from the command line, in my .xinitrc I have the following:

'exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session ck-launch-session hyprland'

However it fails to load and gives the following error:

'seatd[95257] 02"20:47.241 [ERROR] [common/terminal.c.207] Could not set VT mode to enable process switching: Operation not permitted'

Unsure of this error if anyone can assist, first time with hyprland.

Than
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ksolowoniuk said:
Hey, are you running from 'latest'? I went back to quarterly ie. hyprland 0.53.1 because 0.54 was hanging like that. Specifically with menus but it was unusable.
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Yes. So it is the 54 version with the issues.
 
yes, 0.54 was buggy for me. I'm back on 0.53.1:

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Alain De Vos, I had the same issue. I remember giving up for awhile after asking and getting your response, that it wasn't working. However, with the later drivers, it's been trouble free for me. (580.142 for a GT1030 card).
 
Now 580.142 on FreeBSD ports pulls in newly introduced graphics/egl-wayland2 and it could be better supported by Wayland compositors. (dma-buf based , which is more generic interface than already-existed graphics/egl-wayland, which is based on EGLStream that is almost NVIDIA specific.)

Note that if you build x11/nvidia-driver-devel from ports locally, it should pull in graphics/egl-wayland2, too. Or if you additionally install graphics/egl-wayland2, it should work with x11/nvidia-driver-devel, too.

Beware! Oldest supported branch of drivers by graphics/egl-wayland2 is 560 series, so any legacy versions shouldn't work with it.
We (NVIDIA driver team in x11 goup maintainers) intentionally limit it for 580 and later as x11/nvidia-driver is currently on 580 series and no legacy variants of 5xx series are provided.
And we waited for current 580.142 to introduce graphics/egl-wayland2 as we've heared from upstream developer that 580 series had some issues to work with graphics/egl-wayland2 and the first version after we heared the fix for it is pushed is 580.142.
 
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