I did a fresh install and noticed that my system boots to a black screen with cursor, or sometimes just a black screen after adding desktop widgets (system monitor, wunderground).
The only way I got back to my desktop was to boot and quickly got to TTY and remove the widgets from my desktop using the prompt. Task bar widgets seem to work, but not much on desktop.
Any help with this would be most appreciated.
I’ve not messed around with widgets recently, but you might confirm the widgets are specifically built for Plasma 6, before installing them. There are a couple of different versions of Wunderground for example, for Plasma 5, and Plasma 6.
I figured that much, so I tried to stay within the kde provided widgets (System monitor - Application table). Still no dice. When no widgets are present on the desktop, all seems well.
It would have been a problem if I updated with desktop widgets and then this would happen. I would have not known what the issue would be. Hopefully I can future proof by fixing this issue.
The only extra widget I have on my system is the clock I use on the desktop with no issues so seeing if I can reproduce, if it is a third party widget please provide a link to it or show where I can get it so I know I am trying the right thing out
Memory Monitor seems to work just fine (pie chart).
I haven’t checked the rest.
Perhaps my system specs are part of it too.
Old nvidia card running nouveau.
Ok I’ll test it out soon as, just testing something else now and have to pop out for about an hour but I’ll set this and see what happens when I turn on the PC when I get home
Maybe but always good to see if someone can reproduce. Not sure if you mentioned but did have you tried under a new user to confirm it isn’t any old configurations?
I think it might only be affecting very old nvidia cards. Perhaps cards that are supported by the official driver on older kernels only (ex. 340xx driver on Kernel 5.10 and below).
Gentlemen,
I appreciate the welcome.
I have tried Wayland with the latest lts kernel.
I’m trying to stick with non-proprietary GPU drivers. The official driver is no longer supported on newer kernels, which causes problems on major updates.
After a ton of research and plenty of driver/kernel installs, it looks like my card has simply hit its stride. A newer card is in order. Other arch distro users are also having trouble with it. The old solution was to install kernel 5.10 or older and manually install the driver. You would repeat this process every other update, regardless of ignore flag. I appreciate the good Gentlemen that helped out. Many thanks.
