Boot stops on black screen - white cursor

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Hello,

Just starting my OpenMandriva journey. Thank you in advance for your help.

  • OpenMandriva Lx version: 24.12

  • **Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE **

  • **Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant): After selecting OpenMandriva in GRUB it loads the wallpaper but then the screen goes black with a solid white cursor on the top left corner of the screen. No input changes anything but when I press the power button to shutdown the cursor starts flashing and the computer shuts down. **

  • **Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…): Installing to desktop computer. Intel Core i9 13900k, 64GB DDR5 RAM, Nvidia 4070ti, 1TB NVME connected to USB-C port. Computer is dual boot with Windows 11 on a seperate 2TB NVME. Used to run CachyOS before wiping and installing OpenMandriva. Live USB loads fine. **

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Welcome! We are glad you are here.

Just a couple of questions to help others.

X11 or Wayland?

Did you ever get it boot? If so, did you load the nvidia driver?

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I do apologise for missing that, I am using the Wayland build.

Never got it to boot.

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If you are getting a black screen with white cursor then the operating system probably did boot and the desktop is not starting because Plasma6 + Wayland do not like your nvidia hardware. It will be easier to problem solve with a working desktop, and this should be easy to accomplish.

Do this:

Boot Advanced Options>Console Mode

At the prompt login as user and install the following:

sudo dnf in task-plasma6-x11

Then type:

startplasma-x11

If you are using autologin go to SystemSettings and set that to login to Plasma X11.

If that works then you can see if installing nvidia proprietary driver with OM-Welcome will help this problem or something else is needed. I do not have nVidia hardware so I can not help much with that.

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I agree with @ben79 on this. Nvidia and Wayland are a no go. I wish that were not the case, but it is what it is.

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Thanks @ben79
I used task-plasma6-x11 to change to X11.
I was able to get into the desktop :slightly_smiling_face:
@WilsonPhillips thank you for your help as well.

Let me know if you ever need help testing Wayland and Nvidia.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I had to use startx
With startplasma-x11 I would see the $DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server error.

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