Black screen with white cursor in left corner

joshontech

I have had this issue for a while now and just have not had the time to report it. It only happens when booting and not all the time. The whole computer freezes at this time and you cannot do anything but restart. Usually a reboot fixes the issue and it just boots into Solus Gnome.

System specs below.
OS: Solus x86_64
Kernel: 5.2.13-126.current
Uptime: 25 mins
Packages: 970 (eopkg), 10 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.0.7
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: GNOME 3.32.2
Theme: Plata-Noir [GTK2/3]
Icons: Papirus [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
`CPU: AMD FX-8350 (8) @ 4.814GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 With driver 430.50
Memory: 1990MiB / 7871MiB

joshontech

Figured out this issue! It was the Nvidia driver and xorg.conf file.

What I had to do was open the nvidia setting as root in terminal
(sudo nvidia-settings).
Than go to X Server Display Configuration in the Nvidia settings.

IF SCREEN REFRESH IS CORRECT FOR YOU SKIP STEP 3!

Click on Advanced option and select force composition pipeline. (This step was specifically for my setup because I have a 144hz monitor and without this setting it stuck me at 30hz for some reason)
Click on save to X Configuration File
Click Browse and navigate to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Once you click browse go to Other Locations, Computer, etc, X11, and than click save
Select check box merge with existing file and than save again

This fixed the issue for me completely.