Fedora Sway 43 - SDDM Shows Black Screen

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I found this post in the forum Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen which seems to describe the same issue that I was having. So I tried the temporary fix following these steps:

  1. Edit the grub command and deleting rhgb and then booting.
  2. Switch to console #2 using “Ctrl+Alt+F2”.
  3. Logging in with my user and password.
  4. Then I tried typing sway and enter.

I then got the following errors.

[sway/server.c:163]!!! Proprietary Nvidia drivers are in use !!!
[sway/server.c:165]Use Nouveau instead
[sway/server.c:175]Proprietary drivers are NOT supported. To launch sway anyway. launch with --unsupported-gpu and DO NOT report issues.

Are those error messages the reason why SDDM boots into a black screen with a blinking cursor?

In my other post no one said that the proprietary driver is not supported. The reason I’m using it instead of Nouveau is because I couldn’t even get the live environment and installer to start up using the Nouveau driver. I had to install using the iGPU, then install the Nvidia driver, then switch the BIOS to use the Nvidia GPU.

Am I missing something?

If I use sway –unsupported-gpu sway does start and I get a GUI desktop.