Hello,
OMLx Rome using KDE 6, and Open kmod Nvidia Driver
There seems to be a problem with Nvidia both open kmod driver and proprietary. That causes the screen to go black and give a cursor and do a login loop. I believe this is an issue with KDE itself as it is not distro specific from my experience. If you are using a AMD/Nvidia laptop with dual gpus, KDE will try to use both at the same time causing a login loop. The only fix I have found is to turn off compositor.
You could try installing nvidia-settings if it’s not already installed and see if there is an option in the application to set “Primary GPU” for the nvidia card. It should work with either the open or closed driver.
Hello! We’ve been discussing a similar problem here, in case it wasn’t under your radar. There I said that I solved the problem switching from SDDM to lightdm, but seeing this it might be that SDDM manages the compositor in some strange way, giving the defaults you describe. I had the same problem using Xfce and XFailsafe when starting with SDDM, so that’s why I put the blame there rather than in KDE.
Maybe the problems are unrelated, but thought I could share this here.
That is what I did late last night. I tried to uninstall plasma6 sddm and just install sddm but it was still doing it late, then finally installed lightdm and it stopped. It has to be that sddm is compositing.
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