GDM doesn't show up anymore after installing catalyst, Xorg works fine

Hi,
I just installed catalyst-hook from Vi0L0 and my situation is this: when I boot my computer the output on the tty1 gets stucked after the checking the filesystem with systemd-fsck and nothing appears after that, no blinking cursor, no prompt that asks me for a login, no nothing, nothing progress in both textual and graphic modes ; however, if I switch to the 2nd terminal with ALT + F2 I can login and start Xorg via the usual
startx
and apparently no session is ever being initiated before that so whatever is happening on tty1 must prevent xorg from even starting a new session.
What I tried
The main problem is that I have absolutely no idea what this is about, It could be anything ranging from modprobe to gdm, but since I have an audio card that only works properly when the appropriate configuration in
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
gets loaded and I can even start a desktop session, I'm assuming that the core stuff on my system ( kernel modules and Xorg ) is working properly .
[ Test 1 ]
aticonfig --acpi-services=off
doesn't fix anything and doesn't make a difference at all
[ Test 2 ]
/etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[daemon]
AlwaysRestartServer=true
[security]
[xdmcp]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
Apparently this should fix the same problem experienced by KDM users; as far as I can tell this changes nothing .
Bottom line
I can't get to the GDM login anymore after installing catalyst-hook, I can use the fglrx without any major issue, I can start a desktop session with startx from tty2 and tty1 gets stuck before anything "graphical" can actually appear on the screen and probably non even Xorg gets any chance of running on tty1 .
What kind of problem is this ?

arkur wrote:
clfarron4 wrote:
Have you seen the catalyst-fix-gdm or the AUR package?
What happens with another different DM?
Also I can't find that package with pacman, I also would like to fix this by myself, not because I don't trust the author of the package, but I just don't want to install too many packages and for the core things I would like full access to the essential configuration .
Anyway it looks like that GDM is the problem this round.
You won't find it with pacman, because it is in the AUR and you will to compile it to install it.

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