Nvidia GT-540M Video Driver on Fedora 42 KDE Plasma Wayland

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1. Does it work better if you boot without the rhgb option?

Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen

Problem Multiple users have reported that Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen. Cause This seems to be a problem with handoff from ‘plymouth’ (the component that displays a graphical boot process) to ‘sddm’ (the login manager used on KDE). The fact that it only affects some users/systems suggests that there’s a race or timing issue involved. Most people seem to be running AMD iGPUs, but we have some reports with other GPUs as well. Related Issues Bugzilla report: #2404966 Workaroun…

2. When did you do the upgrade? If it was before (say) Tuesday 4th Nov, it would be worth doing a dnf --refresh upgrade to ensure you have the latest packages. You should be able to do that either by booting into the rescue kernel or (maybe) by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4 to go into a TTY at the point where you currently get the black screen.