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DerJungeHerr

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 2

blackscreen after KDE + SDDM installation

Hey guys!

I am super exited about Arch Linux and I was able to install it without a desktop enviroment.  Terminal is working fine!

I then installed KDA-Plasma and SDDM to have a desktop enviroment. 

systemctl status sddm shows me it is active.... 

But after a reboot there is only a black screen, no mouse curser, nothing ....

I installed also nvidia drivers .... and tried to trouble shoot some things ... doesn't work....

I REALLY want to try it out ... what do you need from me (logs??)

Hardware: Asus ProArt PX13, AMD Ryzen, Nvidia GPU ....

best regards!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: blackscreen after KDE + SDDM installation

Post the links you get from

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st < /var/log/Xorg.0.log

did you install the nvdia prop drivers and if so, did you use nvidia-xconfig to generate a configuration? Get rid of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in that case.

DerJungeHerr

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 2

Re: blackscreen after KDE + SDDM installation

Post the links you get from

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st < /var/log/Xorg.0.log

did you install the nvdia prop drivers and if so, did you use nvidia-xconfig to generate a configuration? Get rid of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in that case.

Thanks!  I have to reinstall first my Arch .... Had to install W11 on free Space / new Partition, but now my Arch bootloader is gone -.- 

I installed nvidia with this command: pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

What is the right way to get the properitary drivers?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: blackscreen after KDE + SDDM installation

that is the right way, but running nvidia-xconfig would be wrong.

For fixing the bootloader you only have to fix the bootloader/ESP there's no reason to reinstall Arch entirely because of that.