Black screen with cursor at boot 90% of the time, before SDDM

Booting in linux-lts does seem to work consistently, thank you. I’ve just tried it three times and got to the login screen each time. I don’t know why I hadn’t tried that; I was sure I did. I tried the standard kernel too and it didn’t work, just like `g14`.

I’m not sure if I should just stick to lts or try to fix whatever is happening when I boot into the other two. I use `g14` simply because asus-linux’s resources recommend it for compatibility (this is an ASUS TUF A15 FA506QM laptop) without actually having ever noticed a difference, so it’s probably fine…? Still, do you have an idea what could be the cause, considering it works on LTS? If not, I’ll just mark as solved now.

Where do you see issues with the iGPU? I’m interested to know more, because I have noticed that `nvidia-smi` doesn’t show the iGPU and just shows all processes under my dGPU…

Mon May 25 14:17:59 2026        
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| NVIDIA-SMI 595.71.05              Driver Version: 595.71.05      CUDA Version: 13.2     | 
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ 
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | 
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. | 
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. | 
|=========================================+========================+======================| 
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A | 
| N/A   57C    P8              9W /   90W |      37MiB /   6144MiB |      0%      Default | 
|                                         |                        |                  N/A | 
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ 
 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| Processes:                                                                              | 
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory | 
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      | 
|=========================================================================================| 
|    0   N/A  N/A             897      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                             2MiB | 
|    0   N/A  N/A            1943    C+G   /usr/bin/python                           4MiB | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+