Hi guys. I think this is my first post here, I did the same post on reddit but maybe here this gets more traction.

I bought a new PC, I used to have a 6600K + 970 and I could install Solus on UEFI, if I had a trouble with getting a GUI I just nomodeset and got GUI. Live USB was made on Windows with RUFUS using DD and GPT.

Now I have a Ryzen 5600X and a RTX 3070, I can't get it to boot on UEFI, nomodeset does nothing, I read that I have to update, so I went into TTY, updated, installed nvidia-glx-driver-current, restarted GDM service but nothing, I really can't boot into GUI. But I can with legacy, I can install the system, everything is recognized, everything works well, both CPU and GPU are working as they should but when I installed it legacy, I got GRUB and my Windows UEFI entry was deleted.

Any solution to this?

I dont think this is the issue with solus, faced same issue for other distro's (ubuntu, manjaro) also. For solus was getting

USB Device not accepting address

In the end switched to legacy boot mode and installed Solus.

6 days later

Hi, as a user of a RTX 3060 Ti, I have a solution to offer, even with UEFI 😁

  1. Switch to another TTY, e.g. TTY6

  2. login with username 'live' and hit ENTER. No password needed.

  3. If you happen to have a wifi connection to get working, enable it by
    nmcli device wifi connect 'your wifi name' password 'your password'. Just in case.

  4. Install the nvidia package nvidia-glx-driver-current.

  5. type startx. It will output some errors. Don't be frightened!

  6. Switch to TTY7 and your desktop GUI starts.