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LinuXFroG:
LF here. Been an avid *buntu user/reviewer since 1996 And a Fedora user/reviewer since 2005. Some know me as FD(FrogDemon). I have finally decided to leave the *buntus and Fedoras for Arch and derivatives, since they will not even load on my new system without using "nomodeset", then manually having to set up nVidia drivers since I cannot for some reason get the nouveau drivers to work.

So I am now a no0b again. I do not know any of the terminal commands yet, but am learning. I loaded up the Bridge LiveUSB and the desktop loaded without any issues. Except of course any graphics drivers. But, at least it loaded. So I am looking at a 1024 x 768 desktop. Unlike Fedora and the *buntus which give me an 800 x 600 screen to look at.

Anyways, I am here, at least for now. Would very much appreciate any advice on installing nouveau drivers "easily" on Bridge/Arch systems. Not really into using proprietary drivers. But I will if I must.

Thank you,
- LF

Ninja-1:
Welcome! Nouveau is included by default, it should be detected and used by default from the live boot unless you used the "force vesa" option. What's your graphics chip?

LinuXFroG:
I have a GTX 550ti. For some reason it did not load the nouveau drivers. I have noticed with the *buntus/Fedoras. the livecd/liveusb searches for an onboard chip which my mobo doesn't have and if I don't use "nomodeset" live will not load at all. It will hang forever. I have an Asus M5A97 mobo, so no onboard graphics.

Ninja-1:
You could try installing the packages "nouveau-dri", "mesa", or "libgl". If all else fails, the proprietary drivers will probably work.

LinuXFroG:
What are the terminal commands to get those installed and then reconfigure X?

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