Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

trewq · 2024-03-07 09:11:14

Hi,
i just did a update and after reboot when i try to login with wayland I'm greeted with a black screen and just a cursor. And here is the thing, I can login with X11 and everything seems to work and the odd thing is that I've never been able to login with X11 since my GPU is not supported i believe. Is there a fix to this? I would like to login with Wayland, since it seems that my config is not loading in X11. I'm using Bismuth for window tilling and that doesn't seem to load up.

(I'm trying to describe the problem as best as i can, I'm still very new to Arch and I'm still learning the correct terms to describe things)

*edit: I left the browser open while in X11, logged out and loaded Wayland. Now i have access to the browser but that's it. I can't open kitty or do anything else.

Last edited by trewq (2024-03-08 10:10:06)

seth · 2024-03-07 09:46:09

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293533

I can login with X11 and everything seems to work and the odd thing is that I've never been able to login with X11 since my GPU is not supported i believe.

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General to provide an overview of your hardware/config

trewq · 2024-03-07 13:23:21

My apologies I didn't see that post earlier. In the post it is stated that Wayland is set as default session for plasma 6 and that seems to be the issue for me. I have in fact been having issues with wayland and not X11. Journalctl shows that I've been loading X11 and not wayland and that seems to solve my issue. Bismuth has been uninstalled since it is not compatible with plasma 6, which is unfortunate. Thanks for the response.

seth · 2024-03-07 15:11:09

That still doesn't really solve the wayland problem, do you have an nvidia GPU?

trewq · 2024-03-07 17:41:39

Yes, I do (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060). I have been having issues with wayland for almost 2 years so I've just given up on it. I couldn't get it to work in Ubuntu and I'm sure i won't be able to get it work on arch.

seth · 2024-03-07 17:50:33

Do you enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting - use the "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" kernel parameter (modprobe.conf won't do!)?

trewq · 2024-03-07 19:02:52

Interesting, I have not. I added "modeset=1" in "/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-modset.conf", rebooted and ran "cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset", it returned "N". I already have that parameter in my /etc/default/grub file as well:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia-drm.modset=1 usbcore.autosuspend=5 "

V1del · 2024-03-07 20:29:40

Your GRUB file has a typo nvidia-drm.modeset=1 and the syntax for modprobe.d conf syntax would be "options nvidia-drm modeset=1". But you want the cmdline method

trewq · 2024-03-08 10:09:35

wow. I'm in Wayland, i thought my computer was broken or something. Thank you both for the help!

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#1 2024-03-07 09:11:14

Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

#2 2024-03-07 09:46:09

Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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Re: Black screen with only cursor after login [SOLVED]

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