Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Re: niri-25.11.20260220 crashes: "couldn't find GPU"

niri package pulls in seatd, do you have it running and are you in the _seatd group?

As of 25.11.20260220, you shouldn't need to set render-drm-device

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, 17:42 Christoph Liebender, <christoph@liebender.dev> wrote:
Hi ports@, Tobias,

when trying to startniri.sh from vt0, it crashes for me with the
attached error. (Specifying render-drm-device as it was suggested in the
pkg-readme causes niri not to start at all, as I reported in the initial
import thread already.)

I wonder, is there any other steps involved to get niri running? Do I
need seatd, greetd, or anything like that? Or _should_ it just be a
"raw" login to vt0 with startniri.sh? Because that's what I am trying.

- christoph

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