Switched to XORG, black login screen with blinking cursor

English Install/Boot/Login
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Everything was good. I logged out. Switched to GNOME on XORG. Login page stopped working (I enter password, and I’m brought back to user select screen). I reboot. Now I’m not getting login screen. Just black with cursor.

I’m new to Linux
Nvidia Optimus laptop. Got the drivers working yesterday and everything was usable on Wayland.
The reason I tried switching to XORG is because I presume my Nvidia card wasnt working as expected. I was getting very low fps in game and YouTube videos stuttering on HD playback .

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Share your graphics hardware info to start with:

inxi -SGa
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Tried booting to previous snapshot to no avail

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How do I get into GNOME terminal

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I’m not a Gnome user, but try Ctrl+Alt+T

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This is my screen with the cursor on the top left
Ctrl alt t doesn’t work

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from a previous post, I have go6 drivers for the Nvidia card now

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No! I assumed you were trying to access from a working Gnome Wayland desktop. I’m not a mind reader.

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When I press Ctrl alt f2 I get this screen for a moment before it goes back to black

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I can hold it down and it keeps flickering but can’t input anything

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Why don’t you reboot and start a Gnome Wayland session?

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Coincidentally pressed Ctrl alt f9 or f10 and got into the login screen. Logged into Wayland desktop now. Would still appreciate help to get into XORG since I was informed Wayland doesn’t work well with Nvidia (YouTube videos stutter on HD)

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Rather than posting the image, please post the output. Copy and paste here as pre-formatted text (using the </> button).

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I don’t have Optimus hardware. See if this thread is of help (specifically Malcolm’s advice):

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@kavser Do you have any conf files lurking in /etc/X11 or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d? Can you post the output from cat /proc/cmdline did you modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment (as in remove the #) from the line WaylandEnable=false

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BOBK:/etc/X11 # tree
.
├── xdm
│   ├── xdm-config
│   └── Xservers
├── xinit
│   ├── xinitrc.common -> ../../../usr/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.common
│   └── xinitrc.d
│       ├── libcanberra-gtk-module.sh
│       └── xdg-user-dirs.sh
├── xorg.conf.d
│   └── 00-keyboard.conf
└── xorg.conf.install


BOBK:~ # cat /proc/cmdline 
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.7.4-1-default root=UUID=f393aafe-21c4-4ab6-8368-14edde4a228e splash=silent mitigations=auto quiet security=apparmor

The last time i tried to uncomment WaylandEnable=false I had the same login screen issue, and ended up reinstalling opensuse. Should I try again?

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@kavser can you add the kernel boot option nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to grub.

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GRUB_BACKGROUND=
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
SUSE_BTRFS_SNAPSHOT_BOOTING="true"
GRUB_USE_LINUXEFI="true"
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK="n"
nvidia_drm.modeset=1
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="vga=gfx-1024x768x16"
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"grub" 46L, 1689B written

changed the grub file in /etc/default to the above

BOBK:/etc/default # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/default/grub: line 45: nvidia_drm.modeset=1: command not found
did I do something wrong

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@kavser um, yes… remove that line. it’s the line beginning GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=... you append that too.

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exact same problem persists. Login screen loops, and then breaks

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thanks for the help malcolm, but it seems like opensuse isnt the right OS for me right now. I’m uninstalling. Thanks again il be back one day