Bug 1192923

Summary: Black Initial Login Splash Screen
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Stuart Nettleton <snettlet>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Gfx Bugs <gfx-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Gfx Bugs <gfx-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: sndirsch, tiwai
Version: Current   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Stuart Nettleton 2021-11-21 09:51:39 UTC
I am really happy with TW kernel 5.15.3 on my new computer ... all the newest Intel hardware works really well ... a sound issue I initially had is fully resolved with the 5.15 kernels ... there is just one minor thing ... in booting in the initial login screen (where we choose Wayland etc and enter the password) is blank ... so I type the password and keep my fingers crossed ... so far all has been good and with relief the desktop opens ... my setup is below* ... after discussion on Suse Forum I've had success with the login screen using "prime-select offload" ... I worked through the Wiki on Suse Prime-Select** tring "prime-select offload" which switched from nvidia to Intel ... logged out & in and noted Intel was now being used ... ... I further experimented by using prime-select to switch back to nvidia ... logged out and in ... checked nvidia was the driver ... rebooted and experienced the black login screen again ... entered password to run desktop and used prime-select to switch back to offload ... again rebooted and login screen was available once more ... so it looks like the offload driver is required for now rather than nvidia ... until the issue is fixed in either the kernel or nvidia drivers ... with my OLED screen I find the offload graphics a bit ugly compared to nvidia so now the "workaround" has been established I'll keep going with the Balck Login screen

* sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | susepaste 
Pasted as:
   https://susepaste.org/1133747
   https://paste.opensuse.org/1133747

** https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_SUSE_Prime
Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2021-11-25 15:55:27 UTC
Rather sounds like an issue relevant with Nvidia.  Adding Stefan to Cc.
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2021-11-25 19:27:23 UTC
Yes, this is a know issue. For now you can use offload mode or login blindly. Works when your session setup runs something like xrandr --auto or initializes the outputts via RANDR somehow.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1192751 ***
Comment 3 Stuart Nettleton 2021-11-25 20:40:27 UTC
Thanks for looking into this :)