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Thread: Broke display drivers and can only boot recovery mode

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    Broke display drivers and can only boot recovery mode

    I was trying to install Nvidia drivers on Kali Linux, following a tutorial.
    I typed in these commands:

    apt-get update
    apt-get dist-upgrade
    apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
    apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

    It downloaded the new drivers, but said that they were disabled in xorg.something
    It also said something about rebooting might enable them. So I went on to enter these commands:

    sed 's/quiet/quiet nouveau.modeset=0/g' -i /etc/default/grub
    update-grub
    reboot

    So the last commands disable the driver that was enabled. On reboot, I get a black screen and a blinking white cursor at the top left side of the screen. I presume I don't have any drivers enabled? What would the commands be to re-enable the standard display drivers from Kali Linux recovery mode?

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    Hello
    Maybe this guide can be of some help to you. It has worked great for me many times https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...nabled-Laptops also maybe hit ctrl and f1 or something like that.

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