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SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

My sddm won't start.

ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403WR 2025 with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and RTX 5070Ti
Kernel 6.15.4-zen2-1-zen but I also checked on vanilla kernel, the result is the same.
I'm using the open Nvidia driver because the proprietary one doesn't work with the video card yet. I checked both drivers. When starting the system, I see the boot log, then it just freezes. I switch to another TTY, try to look at the sddm log, but it's empty journactl `which sddm`. At the same time, the Gnome shell works with Wayland, I am currently logged into it. Am I right in understanding that the problem is in the too new config and just need to wait for the Plasma update? Just in case, I attach the dmesg log.

https://pastebin.com/9gwWk8wA

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

dmesg won't help w/ userspace problems.
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306608

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

dmesg won't help w/ userspace problems.
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306608

A have empty journal

```
sudo journalctl -b                           
No journal files were found.
-- No entries --
```

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

cat /etc/systemd/journald.conf

Also please use Please use [code][/code] tags, the BBS was old when markdown was born… Edit your post in this regard.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

dmesg won't help w/ userspace problems.
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306608

Sorry, can't upload to 0x0.st https://pastebin.com/B7RpRHxZ

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

Oh, I see

sddm-greeter-qt6[2287]: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents/PictureBox.qml:106:13 Parameter "event" is not declared. Injection of parameters into signal handlers is deprecated. Use JavaScript functions with formal parameters instead.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

июн 30 21:17:40 asus sddm-helper[2254]: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-HqtwaR"
июн 30 21:17:41 asus sddm-greeter-qt6[2287]: Adding view for ":0.0" QRect(0,0 0x0)
июн 30 21:17:36 asus python3[1977]: [36] INFO: Available modules: ['nouveau', 'nvidia', 'nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm']
июн 30 21:17:37 asus python3[1977]: [470] INFO: Loading module: nvidia_drm

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General and then remove optimus-manager and everything it left behind in /etc/X11/xorg.conf*

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

июн 30 21:17:40 asus sddm-helper[2254]: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-HqtwaR"
июн 30 21:17:41 asus sddm-greeter-qt6[2287]: Adding view for ":0.0" QRect(0,0 0x0)
июн 30 21:17:36 asus python3[1977]: [36] INFO: Available modules: ['nouveau', 'nvidia', 'nvidia_drm', 'nvidia_modeset', 'nvidia_uvm']
июн 30 21:17:37 asus python3[1977]: [470] INFO: Loading module: nvidia_drm

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General and then remove optimus-manager and everything it left behind in /etc/X11/xorg.conf*

Xorg.log https://pastebin.com/hh0EG5uE
Remove optimus and config, try reboot now

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

I'm remove optimus and config from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, but SDDM not started after reboot. Last journalctl https://pastebin.com/F6nMPpVr

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

июн 30 21:38:42 asus sddm-greeter-qt6[2254]: Adding view for ":0.0" QRect(0,0 0x0)

The xorg log is gonna be more interesting, the last one tried to run reverse prime and would likely have required "xrandr --setprovideroutputsource …", https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#Configuration - let's see where we're at right now.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

июн 30 21:38:42 asus sddm-greeter-qt6[2254]: Adding view for ":0.0" QRect(0,0 0x0)

The xorg log is gonna be more interesting, the last one tried to run reverse prime and would likely have required "xrandr --setprovideroutputsource …", https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#Configuration - let's see where we're at right now.

$ lspci -d ::03xx
64:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GB205M [GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
65:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Strix [Radeon 880M / 890M] (rev c1)

In

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

only keyboard config file.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

The xorg log is gonna be more interesting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General (the entire log, not the grep examples)

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

The xorg log is gonna be more interesting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General (the entire log, not the grep examples)

This is full Xorg log https://pastebin.com/vPXhGGTp

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

[  3435.986] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[  3435.986] (**) |   |-->Device "nvidia"
[  3435.986] (**) |   |-->GPUDevice "integrated"

looks like optimus-manager.

[  3436.129] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "NULL"

It configures the server to run on the nvidia chip, but the only output is wired

[  3436.077] (II) modeset(G0): EDID for output eDP-1-1
[  3436.077] (II) modeset(G0): Manufacturer: SDC  Model: 419c  Serial#: 0

to the intel one.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#Configuration
You might have to explicitly --setprovideroutputsource (--listproviders to get the actually relevant ones, the wiki examples won't work for you)

Alternatively rust remove optimus-manager and residual configs it might have created and left behind.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

I dont have optimus or supergfxctl, only asusctl package.

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Re: SDDM won't start on Asus Zephyrus G14 2025

Whatever generates that config has either to stop or you might have to set the output source explicitly.

grep integrated /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf*

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