I have installed/reinstalled Kali a bunch of times. I have checked the MD5 sums and they match so my iso is good.
I just bought a new laptop Asus GL552vw (http://store.asus.com/us/item/201510AM170008064/A17602) details at the bottom of the page on what hardware is in it.
The problem I faced after numerous successful installs is once at the login screen > root > my password > the mouse pointer freezes, and thats it. Stays with the "concrete grey" background and hangs.
I have got a fix to be able to boot into gnome, however I don't have my I/O peripherals working properly I.E. key board function keys, the keyboard lighting, and the mouse touch pad does not work. The work around I found to get gnome to boot is update grub with "acpi=off."
I have booted into recovery mode and did just about every workaround I could search for to include the Kali nvidia driver install. After each attempt, I did a clean install.
The current fix for me is in recovery, edit the grub config file adding acpi=off, then doing an apt-get update, dist-upgrade, reboot.
I really am at a loss, I have been using this OS since betty5 days and have always found a solution.
My OS boots with acpi=off, however I do not know what is actually working and not, (my gpu or the integrated Intel). My mouse touch pad does not work at all and I only have basic keyboard functions.
This is not a I/O problem, but a graphics driver problem, because when I had my Toshiba laptop (with Optimums) I had a similar problem.
I would like to have a clean install, with minimal changes to the os, and have everything work. Once I find that solution I can set up my dual boot with win 10 and have a final complete setup.
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Thank you for you time,
ab cde.
