Talk: Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen

Problem Multiple users (with AMD iGPUs) 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. The issue seems related to certain AMD iGPU chipsets. Related Issues Bugzilla report: #2404966 Workarounds Several users have…