Unable to enable Wayland

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#6

First can you run this in terminal and see whether KMS is enabled on your machine?

dmesg | grep drm

If you do not see KMS listed, then it is not enabled.
If it is not:

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

Remove the Comment from WaylandEnable=false and then change it to say
WaylandEnable=true
Hit ctrl+x to exit, then hit the y key to say yes to save, then hit the enter key to save as current configuration.
The terminal will revert to normal, then run:

sudo systemctl restart gdm3

Or reboot to test

#7

I got

[ 1.289440] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 1.289609] [drm] This hardware requires experimental hardware support.

#8

Are you using the generic kernel or HWE (HardWare Enabled kernel)?

uname -a

You may need to install the mainline HWE or DRM kernel. Before trying that, I would suggest trying the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf edit above, anyway. If you have not tried that yet, I would still consider it a reasonable chance of working.

Otherwise, you can install the MainLine Kernels you need through Synaptic Package Manager to make it easier:

sudo apt install synaptic

Or
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-upgrading-the-ubuntu-linux-kernel/

I am sorry about the links- I am majorly multi-tasking at the moment and trying to reply to posts quickly.

#9

Here is what I got from the uname command

Linux IdeaPad-Flex-5-14ARE05 5.4.0-73-generic #82~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 15:10:02 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I will try the edit and then come back to you.

#10

Ah, Lenovo Ideapad... Lenovo "pad"s are notoriously finicky on Linux these days. They did not used to be...

#11

It's run every other Linux fairly well. Anyway, no change.

#12

Then at this point, I can only suggest you either try Reinstalling Zorin OS or check the Mainline kernel.

Zorin OS should come with the HWE Kernel... It is built off of Ubuntu as a base just like Mint and many other distros. So if "every other Linux" runs well, I would suspect a corruption occurred during the OS installation. If this is a fresh install, then a reinstall may be painless.

#13

Luckily I just installed it today and have mostly nothing installed yet so... I'll update you in a bit.

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#14

And back. Did not see the gear icon on login. Currently doing updates.

#15

Hmmm... is this Zorin OS LITE that you are installing?

#16

Nope, Core 15.3. Just finished updates and there are no changes.

#17

And... you ARE clicking the Gear Icon, right?

#18

In the log in screen? There is no gear icon to click.

#19

This is an Ubuntu screen as I cannot easily find a Zorin one- but the GDM3 layout is the same:

#20

Yeah, it's not there.

#21

You may try reinstalling GDM3, but I doubt that is the issue as you just did two fresh installations of the system. Other than that, I can think of no reason that the desktop environment selection icon could be missing.
On my copy of Zorin Core, the icon shows the option for "Zorin on Wayland".

#22

I attempted the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf edit and there was no change, and also checked uname -a and there were no changes there. It's possible switching to Wayland won't actually solve my issues (slow UI, no animations, screen tearing

#23

I could try installing Lite but I'm pretty sure my laptop should be able to handle Core without issue.

#24

What Graphics card does your notebook have?

#25

Radeon RX Vega 6 integrated (CPU is Ryzen 5 4500u)