I bought a new computer this month, but I am unable to get the Solus live USB to boot. This new machine has a NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER in it, and I think it's causing my problem because NVIDIA & any Linux distribution invariably is a problem. Here's what I've tried so far:
Booting the Solus live USB image results with a hang and strange graphical artifacts:
A note about this behavior: I get the same hang and graphical artifacts with the Ubuntu 20.04 live USB, and the only way I can get to the installation UI is to select "safe graphics" mode. Similarly, I have to select "compatibility mode" with Linux Mint 20 to get to the installation screen. Linux Mint 20 is what I reluctantly have installed now, and I'm having issues with that currently - see here if you want to go down a rabbit hole of a different kind: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=326369
An attempt to boot the Solus live USB with the parameter "nomodeset" results in a black screen with a blinking cursor.
The parameter "nouveau.modeset=0" and "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" both result in this with a hang:
Booting with "nomodeset" and pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging in as root, I tried the following:
eopkg ur
eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current
systemctl restart lightdm
Another black screen with a blinking cursor. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-F2 again. And typed:
startx
The result:
I'm kind of stuck here. Any suggestions? Please and thank you!