I'm having a frustrating issue with my Arch Linux setup. After I boot my system, the screen goes completely black, but I can access the TTY. I attempted to install KDE Plasma using the commands: `sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop`, `sudo pacman -S sddm`, and `sudo systemctl enable sddm`. After rebooting, the black screen problem still occurs. I'm not sure what to try next. KDE was the desktop environment I initially had installed, and it was working fine before. Any suggestions?
2 Answers
It sounds like you did everything correctly, but since you're still seeing a black screen, let's troubleshoot a bit more. First, make sure your display manager is actually starting up. You can check the logs using the command `journalctl -xe` in TTY to see if there are any errors related to SDDM. If you see errors, you might want to consider reinstalling SDDM or even the KDE Plasma desktop environment directly from TTY. You can do this using `sudo pacman -S sddm plasma-desktop`. Hope this helps!
When you say the screen is black, does that mean you can't access the desktop environment at all? If so, you might want to try installing another desktop environment temporarily, just to see if the issue is with KDE specifically. You could grab something lightweight like XFCE or LXQt. You can install it in TTY with `sudo pacman -S xfce4` or `sudo pacman -S lxqt` and then attempt to start that. It's a good troubleshooting step!
I appreciate the tip! I’ll try installing XFCE and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check the logs and see if I can spot any errors.