Trouble Using Trinity Display Manager On Debian 12.9
Edit: Found a solution, thanks to 807Autoflowers!
"What happens on some TDE installs is that X tries to start before the drivers for the GPU are loaded. I have ran into this before, from the TTY you can restart the display manager service and it works, but booting to the graphical target does not.
This is the script I included with matrixOS to handle the issue."
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Hi all,
I've fresh installed Debian 12.9 with the "Graphical Desktop Environment" setting unticked in the setup wizard.
As a result Debian booted into a text environment, which I wanted. I then followed these instructions to the letter to install the latest version of the Trinity Desktop Environment, the full package https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions
Everything is working fantastic, there are no problems because it's just a simple matter of logging in on the tty1 text login prompt that comes up, then typing "startx" and the GUI fully loads.
However, I would like a graphical login screen and this is where the trouble starts. I made sure the tdm.service is started, I also changed the target to "graphical.target" using the systemctl command.
Debian confirms that it is now running on a graphical target, tdm.service is running...but I still get a text based tty1 login screen instead of the Trinity Display Manager login screen.
How do I fix this if possible? I am aware I could just use Q4OS, and I was up until today but I just wanted to see how far I could get by setting the whole thing up myself, which I have done!
I just need to try and enable the Trinity Display manager next, and this is where I am really stuck.
Does anybody have any ideas on what the problem may be? I double checked and the TDM itself is installed.
Thank you!