Fixing black screen with cursor issue on Kali Linux on fresh install for NVIDIA users

Siddharth M
2 min readJul 30, 2019

Most of the NVIDIA users may experience an bad situation after fresh install of Kali Linux. This is due to the issue of Kali not supporting driver at that moment. This basically happens after fresh install of Linux on system.

Something like this.. Well don't worry we can fix this.

Just switch off the PC (hard boot) and on again.. Now when we have Kali Grub menu with us.

Now press advanced option and enter recovery mood.

It will ask for the password. So if you havent set a particular password by default it is ‘toor’ else type your password and press enter.

We need to edit the grub file now type:
nano /etc/default/grub

In Grub file you will find a line GRUBCMD_LINE_LINUXDEFAULT=”QUIET” which we will now change to “QUITE NOUVEAU. MODESET=0

Now press ctr+x and then y for saving.

Now we need to update grub using command : update-grub

That’s it. This must have fixed your issue. :)

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Siddharth M
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