Hardware: Dell XPS 8940 11th Gen Intel i7-11700 (16) @ 4.800GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti I'm using latest TW-release with kernel 5.19.0-1-default and NVIDIA driver 515.65.01 installed the hard way. kernel 5.18.9-2 or higher seems to give a (plymouth) problem. The problem doesn't occur with kernel 5.18.9-1-default or lower. Booting up with one of these kernels the plymouth boot screen stops displaying after this line: I915 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) Eventually I get to the KDE login screen. The problem is that I'm using the hard way to install NVIDIA. This makes I can't boot when a new kernel is installed as the boot process ends up with a black screen. Luckely I can access the faulty pc from another pc and install the driver from there. journalctl show me this: Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Initializing... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Starting... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Logind interface found Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Adding new display on vt 7 ... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Loading theme configuration from "" Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:33 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:33 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 1 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 2 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 3 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Could not start Display server on vt 7 Any idea how I can fix this? Martin