Thanks for the suggestion. I indeed had a manually installed driver from a
few years ago before Ubuntu had official support for my GPU. Uninstalling
the old driver solved the issue.

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 5:50 AM Jonas Eigemann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I had the same bug after updating Kubuntu from 25.10 to 26.04 LTS.
> For me, completely removing and then reinstalling the amdgpu driver
> package with the latest version solved the issue.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2152794
>
> Title:
>   Opening the KDE displays system menu gives an error of "No KScreen
>   backend found."
>
> Status in kscreen package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   System release version:
>   Description:    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
>   Release:        26.04
>
>   Package Version Policies:
>   kscreen:
>     Installed: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1 500
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>   libkscreen-bin:
>     Installed: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1 500
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>   libkscreen-data:
>     Installed: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1 500
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64
> Packages
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe i386
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>   libkf6screen8:
>     Installed: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1 500
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>   kwin-wayland:
>     Installed: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1 500
>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>   When did this start:
>   - After I upgraded from Kubuntu 25.10 to Kubuntu 26.04
>
>   What I expect to happen:
>   - The system menu to load the display settings.
>
>   What happens instead:
>   - System menu shows red error alert with the text "No KScreen backend
> found. Please check your KScreen installation."
>
>   What I've tried/checked:
>
>   - Reinstalling kscreen
>
>   - Regenerating ~/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json
>
>   - Running with KSCREEN_BACKEND_INPROCESS=1
>
>   - Cleared my ~/.cache and ~/.config
>
>   - Create a new system user
>
>   - Disabling bluedevil (An arch thread found a bluedevil loading error
>   blocked the kscreen backend from loading)
>
>   - Found no missing shared library dependencies (ldd clean on all .so
>   files).
>
>   - Found backend plugins exist at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
>   gnu/qt6/plugins/kf6/kscreen/ (KSC_KWayland.so, KSC_XRandR.so,
>   KSC_Fake.so).
>
>   - kscreen-doctor --info finds all three KScreen backends. But
>   defaulted to XRandR. Creating /etc/xdg/kscreenrc with
>   PreferredBackend=KSC_KWayland fixed the selection, but did not resolve
>   the issue.
>
>   - kscreen-console returns empty config. kscreen-console json returns
>   {} after 1-2ms. kscreen-console outputs says "Config is invalid,
>   probably backend couldn't load." kscreen-console bug displays valid
>   monitor data but this is read from ~/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json,
>   not from the live backend.
>
>   - KWin is functioning correctly. kwin_wayland --version reports 6.6.4.
>   Information shows both outputs enabled with correct geometry. wayland-
>   info confirms kde_output_management_v2 (v19) and two
>   kde_output_device_v2 (v20) interfaces are advertised.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
>   Package: kscreen 4:6.6.4-0ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-15.15-generic 7.0.0
>   Uname: Linux 7.0.0-15-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.34.0-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
>   CurrentDesktop: KDE
>   Date: Sat May 16 11:09:41 2026
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-27 (719 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Release amd64
> (20231010)
>   SourcePackage: kscreen
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-05-15 (1 days ago)
>
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>
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