MSI THIN G63 RTX 3050 Mobile, graphic installation help

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The inxi does list an nvidia now, which is good.

I dont know a whole lot about particulars of nvidia itself, but some blackscreen type issues have been associated with KMS (or the lack thereof).

Switching to TTY from GUI yields a black screen without any text or login prompt

Hi, Thanks, you too. That can be ignored. Have you enabled KMS? This would probably have been handed down in pacnews, but here is the guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting#Early_KMS_start Make sure that kms is included in the HOOKS and nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm is included in the MODULES of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf Additionally for DRM KMS set nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 on the CMDLINE in /etc/default/grub. After both both of those configurations run sudo mk…