Temporary Black Screen After Login Fedora 41

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I was dual booting win+ubuntu and switched to fedora from ubuntu. However I have a problem, when I enter my password and login, my screen goes black for about 3 seconds (the monitor searches for another connection so i can’t count exact seconds).

This happens in both Gnome and KDE. I have a NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super GPU. I am thinking that it might be using the Intel GPU driver (i feel like it has poor graphics in login screen) and when I login to desktop enviorement, it switches to Nvidia driver. But I am not sure if it is the situation.

This problem is not a problem that i need to change my OS, but it is annoying, so I want to fix it.

Thanks in advance for the help.

I tried installing drivers and configuring it to be used in login screen and searched for internet, but couldn’t find any helpfull resource.

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Please post the output of inxi -Fzxx so that we can see what you hardware and drivers are.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.2 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: 1: GDM
    2: SDDM note: stopped Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B85M-D3H v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F14
    date: 09/19/2014
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4790 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 57464
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 ports: active: none
    empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 560.35.03 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-3 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:21c4
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.4 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: N/A display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-3 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: crocus
    device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
    drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 560.35.03
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
    SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:21c4 device: 1
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:0412 device: 2 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:8c20
  Device-3: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb
  Device-4: Razer USA USB Sound Card
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-10:5 chip-ID: 1532:0529
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-6:3 chip-ID: 0b05:190e
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 13.37 GiB (0.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-08U6AA0
    size: 465.76 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 199 GiB used: 12.95 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda6
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 384.3 MiB (39.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda4
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 49.6 MiB (51.7%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-4: /home size: 199 GiB used: 12.95 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.49 GiB used: 2.76 GiB (17.8%)
  Processes: 792 Power: uptime: 2m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 16
    Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: konsole
    inxi: 3.3.36
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Check for a vendor UEFI firmware update. Newer kernels often require changes to vendor firmware. The inxi output shows a 1920x1080 display connected to the Nvidia card with HDMI, but “off”.

There have been problems with SDDM and themes.