Kali Live USB(Persistent) unable to boot into GUI without "nomodeset"

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What have you tried:
Installing Debian repo nvidia-driver(535)
Installing Nvidia repo nvidia-driver(575)
Blacklisting nouveau
Installing Release and weekly versions of Live USB
Installing gmd3
apt update and upgrade
What is the error:
Display won’t work in VESA mode(can’t boot into GUI without nomodeset)
What device is this on:
I7 12700K
RTX 5080
Flash drive: 256gb transcend ssd stick. Iso flashed using rufus, but same issues with balena

i’m suspecting that the root cause of this is unsuported kernel/drivers for 5080 but i don’t know how to fix it

As i don’t have integrated gpu in my cpu i’m using hdmi input on videocard

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If it saves you any trouble - you can forget about using the 5080 anywhere remotely near its capabilities with a live usb stick, since any data from the operating system would still have to go through the bottleneck of the usb port, which is busy reading and writing while running the operating system.

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I was not going to use 5080 for hashcat/any type of bruteforce, the task is to create “fully functional” system on usb drive, that will not depend on any pc storage and can be detached at any moment.
The problem is: i can’t make window server(if this is correct name of gui mode) at all and i don’t have any other vga device that will handle display output for me.

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Edit: for clarification, my cpu is not 12700K, it is 12700KF, so i can’t output video through ports on MB

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Is this on a desktop computer?

A laptop very often has a low powered card that is used for initial vga mode to boot grub etc, and then only switches to discrete GPU (in this case Nvidia) if it detects that mode is needed (powersave, inbuilt GPU is default, high power discrete GPU for 3d acceleration etc)

nomodeset will boot it using inbuilt GPU so you might have to ‘force’ Nvidia mode only..
This is Ubuntu, another Debian based distro so same process;

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This is desktop, so unfortunately i have only one vga adapter.

I think i will abandon this idea for a bit, and return when there are stable open-source driver and distro will be updated to include it.

Currently this is clearly distro hardware compatibility issue, because when launching clear installation(both live and just gui installer) without any parameters nouveau states “unknown chipset”

I hope, at least we will see new nvidia drivers on non-free repository of kali, because it is really not easy to install them from nvidia distro and i clearly failed when was doing so

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Debian based distros are always behind with newer hardware support.

This might help with getting it to work;

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I can’t explain with words how i’m grateful for your help and how i’m embarrassed by mu stupidity of using wrong nvidia docs. This doc worked like a charm.
Thank you so much, i hope this tread will help people that are as unexperienced in linux debbuging as i am.

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Sounds like you’ve sorted out the problem, well done. No one knows everything, I’m still learning everyday. And that really is all its about, doing a bit everyday so things start to make sense and the knowledge sticks.

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