Black login screen

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I have the exact same issue. During boot it says “Started Window Manager” and then it shows the rapidly blinking/flickering cursor on a black screen.
On this screen, when I spam CTRL+Alt+Fx sufficiently, I eventually am able to show a console. (it keeps switching back to the cursor screen until it doesn’t and shows me the console)

My machine is a Ryzen 7 3800 XT with an MSI Radeon 6700 XT.

When I boot with proprietary drivers from the USB install drive, inxi tells me (I manually typed this over, because copy/paste obviously won’t work):

Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 22 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A bus-ID: 2d:00.0
  chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati, radeon
  unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa tty: 128x48
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.

It looks like a driver problem, just like the one above and the topic over at AMD Navi 22 / 6700XT gives black screen at first install using Manjaro 21.0

  • I also edited the boot options and changed radeon.modeset=1 to amdgpu.modeset=1, to no avail. (both with the proprietary drivers and open source option)