black screen after login in solus

[Ghost]

I have a MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro-252 and I installed Solus to the 1 TB HDD, but I keep getting a black screen after I type my password on the login.

P.S. I have Windows installed on the SSD and have no intention of removing it since it is a gaming laptop after all.

 

[Joom]

The display manager (login screen) isn't properly initializing X. I'm going to assume that you have a dual GPU setup (my brother's MSI does), so you'll need to install your graphics driver through a normal TTY. You can change to one by pressing Ctrl + Alt and a function key. It'll give you a basic, text based login. From here you can install the driver. I recommend downloading it in Windows and putting it on a flash drive, then mount the drive from the TTY you switched to and go from there.

Find the drive with "fdisk - l", and mount it like so:

sudo -s (if you didn't login as root)
mount -t vfat /dev/sd*1 /mnt
cd /mnt && chmod +x *
sh "driver-filename".bin

Replace * accordingly.

I also recommend reading the Arch Wiki as it has a lot of documentation on setting up Linux on MSI machines. It can be applied universally amongst distributions.