Change to Nouveau drivers

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Hi,

New to kicksecure. Clean install (nvidia 40xx series).

It uses VESA drivers, thus max res is 1200x800. Got no options to change to 1920*1080 in display manager?!

Xrandr gives some errorcode with FAILED TO OUTPUT GAMMA something something. Display is not found “unknown display”.

How do I change to Nouveau? Do I need to enroll DKMS for the driver to load?

All other distros I have tried loads nouveau automatically and shows 1920*1080 in display manager.

This is in the HOST OS. Both in sysmaint and user, VESA driver loaded. Too low resolution for my eyes

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Nouveau is the default. No user action required.

Same as on Debian. Should be unspecific to Kicksecure.

Can likely br resolved as per:

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@Patrick thank you sir for answering.

As i suspected, nouveau should load automatically when using Nvidia GPU. Since it is in linux mainkernel. I have googled similar fixes for debian, bookworm, even general linux distros…

Nothing works. “Failed to load module; nouveau” in logs.

Cant force load it with modprobe, terminal says it cant find path. Cant force it with GRUB “e” option nouveau.modeset=1.

Im a complete linux noob so it is hard for me to do even simple things like this..

I did install kicksecure live iso to USB then I installed kicksecure OS on another USB. Can this be a reason for the failed driver initialization? Could it make a difference if I install it onto my NVME drive instead?

Trying to make the switch from windows so wanted to try it on a USB first, but unable to solve the nouveau driver issue…

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Highly unlikely.

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Im very grateful for the replies.

Have done some more troubleshooting. Could it be related to BIOS settings?

Kicksecure live iso (installation media) only gives 800*600.

Kicksecure USB (installed OS on USB).

With Secure Boot ON in bios, 1280x1024

With Secureboot OFF 1024x768.

Perhaps I have some bios setting that is preventing the USB (OS installed) to fetch the GPU or Display?

Any guesses?

I would love to make the switch to increase my IT security after a hacker attack.

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Nvidia drivers shouldn’t be an issue?