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drogo

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Registered: 2017-05-16

Posts: 4

[solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

Hello,
I am new to arch community.
I recently installed Arch Linux with KDE plasma 5 as DE.

At first everything worked fine, but when in a session I installed several must have packages(xorg-server/xinit etc) and personalized many settings,  when i rebooted the display didn't started at all at the login screen, so i just randomly typed my password and hit enter, and screen turned on as soon i got logged in

so i tried to change the theme, and i installed one theme which fortunately had an audio linked with it, so with that when i rebooted i came to know that theme loads but display doesn't start.

display remains off at login screen, may it be at a new session or log out or switch user, and starts immediately once logged in.

Here http://pasted.co/82895655 is an extract of my journalctl.(password: 321)

refered to many nearly similar discussions in various forums but no luck.

thank you.

Last edited by drogo (2017-05-17 08:54:19)

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: [solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

Please provide relevant information.
* Xorg.0.log
* graphic card
* installed driver packages

drogo

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Registered: 2017-05-16

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

-> Xorg.0.log : http://pasted.co/00234046 (pass: 111)
-> graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
-> installed driver packages: xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-nouveau

Also if this information is helpful:

sddm.conf : http://pasted.co/2ab62c58 (pass: 222)

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: [solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

1. Either uninstall nvidia-utils, or install nvidia as well and uninstall xf86-video-nouveau.
2. Uninstall xf86-video-vesa
3. May also uninstall xf86-video-nouveau and use the vendor-neutral builtin modesetting DDX

Last edited by tom.ty89 (2017-05-16 18:15:00)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,139

Re: [solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

Actually there's an nvidia and an intel chip, could be https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=221325

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drogo

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Registered: 2017-05-16

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] completely blank but working login screen sddm

Solved!

I uninstalled the packages xf86-video-vesa and nvidia and nvidia-utils and now login screen works.

Thank you for the help!