On Saturday 25 January 2025 21:41:01 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi! > > I've been running in to a problem on and off for the past year or so: when I > boot my computer it won't always show a login screen (SDDM). The screen > will remain dark without a signal. If I swap tty with ctrl+alt+F1 it will > show me the boot log, with the last entry being "starting local" and > letting me login through the terminal. I can then reboot and things will > start up just fine. Interestingly it does say something about shutting down > the display manager when I reboot in such instances... > > I feel like happens if I fail to start my monitor fast enough, but I'm not > entirely sure. Could that be related?
You need your monitor on during startup; the system needs to read EDID from it to be able to drive it properly. That could be your problem. -- Regards, Peter.
