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2026

Installing Manjaro on an Optimus Laptop - Black Screens, a Portable Monitor, Random Freezes, and the Move to Wayland

2026-10-01 · Manjaro · NVIDIA · AMD · Wayland

A fresh Manjaro KDE install on an AMD iGPU + RTX 5060 laptop whose internal panel sits on the iGPU: GRUB black screen, mismatched NVIDIA modules, a greeter that only lit the external monitor, and X11 AMDGPU fence deadlocks - moving to Wayland fixed the greeter and the fence deadlocks, but later amdgpu pageflip freezes proved it does not fix everything.

Manjaro Black Screen Shows Only loadkmap short read, but the NVIDIA Kernel Module Is Missing

2026-08-11 · Manjaro · NVIDIA · System Recovery

A Manjaro black screen showed only loadkmap: short read; TTY diagnostics revealed and restored an NVIDIA kernel module removed during orphan-package cleanup.