My device is an Omen laptop with AMD CPU and Nvidia 3050 GPU.
I downloaded Fedora 43 KDE Plasma ISO, made a bootable flash drive and installed it on my laptop.
I have encrypted my storage so I thought the issue could be with that. I removed quiet splash kernel parameters in grub to see the log while booting up and the logs show what looks like normal activity to me.
The main issue is that after this the screen goes completely black and I can’t access the TTYs using Ctrl+Alt+F2/F3 etc.
I’ve done a fresh installation again without disk encryption, and the issue persists.
At the end of the logs I can see systemd successfully starting networkmanager and wpa_supplicant before the screen going black.
I still can’t access TTY.
What steps can I take from here to resolve this?
I’ve tried this as well and it doesn’t change anything.
Have you checked https://linux-hardware.org for probes of your model? Are you dual booting (for increased access to vendor firmware updates)?
You should ensure that you have current vendor firmware. Then you can try installing either the server spin and then installing desktop software or a desktop respin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/.
Don’t have access to the machine at this moment, I’ll check it.
But I have used fedora 42 and never had this issue.
Which Nvidia drivers are you using? Did you install them from RPM Fusion as is usually recommended?
Please post the output of “inxi -Fzxx” as preformatted text using the </> button above. If you get a command not found error, please install inxi first with “sudo dnf install inxi”.
Try booting into multiuser target instead of the default graphical target.
Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the linux cmdline and remove rhgb in grub2.
Then login and install the latest updates sudo dnf upgrade --refresh and restart the system systemctl reboot.
Otherwise as suggested by @gnwiii, download the respin ( F43 iso includes all stable updates ) and reinstall the system from scratch.
I can’t get into the system on a fresh install, I haven’t installed anything myself.
Also can’t access the TTYs either so I don’t know how I could get the output of inxi?
I read the forum posts by other people having the same issue on F43, and tried all of the suggested kernel parameters including changing to multiuser target but it’s still getting stuck on a black screen and the ttys are still not opening using ctrl+alt+fnkeys
Can I know what respins are exactly?
Also, I am not dual booting, is that recommended?
does the system also have an AMD GPU?
Try booting again to multi-user.target and also add ‘rd.driver.blacklist=amdgpu’.
Respins are updated ISO live images. They include all updates that were available on that day. Respins-SIG - Fedora Project Wiki
Only if vendors of your hardware only provide firmware updates through Windows.
@anotheruser @gnwiii
I did a new installation from live respin iso and everything seems to work.
I don’t understand what the issue was exactly but at least I have a working system now.
I’ll make sure that firmware for my devices is updated.
Thanks a lot for your help!
