Wayland login options are missing when a radeon card is installed

[Daniel van Vugt]

Wayland login options are missing when a radeon card is installed. GDM only offers Xorg sessions...

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar GL [FirePro 2270]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Cedar GL [FirePro 2270]
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon

And I'm not in hybrid mode either. The integrated graphics device is not listed by lspci.

Strangely I can start weston on another VT successfully. Only mutter/gdm3 is refusing to show Wayland as an option.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gdm3 3.26.1-3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 19 11:18:11 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-03 (168 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170502)
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2017-07-20T13:56:59.913179

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I've tried two different AMD cards so far and the same result.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Виктор Бутко (victor-butko)]

The same problem.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
 Kernel driver in use: radeon
 Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Note to self: This might be a duplicate. Try the workaround mentioned here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1724583/comments/43

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you (me) for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mutter (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gdm3 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Ryan Daniels (jryan-daniels)]

I am having a similar issue on Ubuntu 22.04 with Asus Tuf A15 FA605IH

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This bug is closed. Please open a new bug if you have any problems, by running:

  ubuntu-bug gdm3