Re: Notebook's password input jammed at SDDM login after screen lock:

On 8/21/26 6:29 PM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> Hello,
> 
-Hi busy day here off the pc. working on the Yamaha 4 wheeler and oil 
change on car and blades and spindle on the lawn tractor. Hence the slow 
response.
> In the Message
> 
>    Subject    : Re: Notebook's password input jammed at SDDM login after screen lock:
>    Message-ID : <[email protected]>
>    Date & Time: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:09:58 -0500
> 
> [PJ] == -pj via openSUSE Users <[email protected]> has written:
> 
> PJ>  On 8/21/26 7:25 AM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> [...]
> MN>  > Why don't you try switching from amdgpu back to radeon?
>   
> PJ>  I can certainly try this. Could you explain the best way to do
> PJ>  so? I can consult notes but figured to ask here also due to my
> PJ>  inexperience.
> 
> PJ>  I notice also that entering the password at SDDM sometimes
> PJ>  results in no dots resulting from the password keystrokes but
> PJ>  pressing the 'enter key' results in unlocking. Although this can
> PJ>  be very slow and sluggish.
> 
> It's true -- it's a bit of a stretch to think this is caused by the
> driver. So, I looked into it and found this information, though it’s
> a bit outdated.
> 
Many thanks for looking more deeply at this.

>       https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1289
> 
> It's true that problems with sddm can be a real headache....
> 
> Anyway, choud you show this results?
> 
> 	$ cat /etc/sddm.conf.d/sddm.conf
> 
/etc/sddm.conf.d> ls -lah
total 48K
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   34 Aug  2 05:11 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3.9K Aug 21 21:12 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  170 Mar 13 12:24 kde_settings.conf
paul@localhost:/etc/sddm.conf.d>

and

/etc> cat sddm.conf
paul@localhost:/etc> pwd
/etc

is empty. Although :<

/etc/sddm.conf.d> cat kde_settings.conf
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=default.desktop
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=
RebootCommand=

[Theme]
Current=breeze-openSUSE

[Users]
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000
paul@localhost:/etc/sddm.conf.d>

Notice the above line 'Relogin=false' is set, but it is under 
[Autologin] which I do not wish to use. Could this be something perhaps?
> Best Regards.
>  
-Best of Hopes