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      thwr
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      Is there by any chance a NVidia card in that system? Noticed the nouveau driver. Can you disable the NVidia card (e.g. second onboard card)?

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        scottalanmiller @thwr
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        @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

        Is there by any chance a NVidia card in that system? Noticed the nouveau driver. Can you disable the NVidia card (e.g. second onboard card)?

        Yes there is. And yes I did, so it's out of the picture now.

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          scottalanmiller @thwr
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          @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

          What about some other distro, just for testing? Could be a bad or missing kernel driver for example

          Tried that too, basically the same thing.

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            scottalanmiller
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            Tried booting from DVD instead, and it behaves very different. Takes maybe ten minutes, is very slow and eventually drops me to a root login, which is useless as there is no password. So something is wrong but who knows what it is. But it is getting much farther, but not in a useful way.

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              thwr
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              https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312977&p=13437524#post13437524

              Could you check oldfred's post (#7) and the following post #9? Looks like ASUS ROG is know for needing a kernel parameter, pci=nomsi.

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                scottalanmiller @thwr
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                @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312977&p=13437524#post13437524

                Could you check oldfred's post (#7) and the following post #9? Looks like ASUS ROG is know for needing a kernel parameter, pci=nomsi.

                Testing this one now.

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                  scottalanmiller
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                  Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.

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                    thwr @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                    Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.

                    Looks like something is waiting for timeout

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                      scottalanmiller @thwr
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                      @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                      Start up is still painfully slow. It'll be a bit before I know if this worked or not.

                      Looks like something is waiting for timeout

                      Sort of, but it just keeps moving as well.

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                        thwr @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

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                          scottalanmiller @thwr
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                          @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                          @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

                          Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again 😞

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                            thwr @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                            @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                            @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

                            Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again 😞

                            You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules 😉

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                              scottalanmiller @thwr
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                              @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                              @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                              @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

                              Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again 😞

                              You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules 😉

                              No, it gets to a useless prompt. A prompt means that it has failed. It is supposed to drop to a live desktop that allows for doing installs.

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                                thwr @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

                                Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again 😞

                                You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules 😉

                                No, it gets to a useless prompt. A prompt means that it has failed. It is supposed to drop to a live desktop that allows for doing installs.

                                Ah ok, assumed something else when I had a look at the picture you posted above. Sorry, can't help here - you are probably much more proficient with desktops on Linux.

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                                  Romo
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                                  @scottalanmiller how about trying this. Found it in ask Ubuntu:

                                  I carried out a fresh install of 16.04 on my ASUS GL552VW.

                                  The only additional GRUB parameters I entered (for installation and normal boot) were:

                                  nouveau.modeset=0
                                  

                                  To stop Nouveau from taking over.

                                  Once I'd installed the nVidia 361.42 drivers, through the Additional Drivers tab in Software Updater, I had to disable Secure Boot. (Secure boot stops unsigned kernel modules loading)

                                  With those settings, everything works. Touchpad, Skylake support, nVidia graphics @ 1920x1080, Wifi, Bluetooth, keyboard backlight.

                                  Installation of 16.04 is much less hassle than previous versions.

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                                    scottalanmiller @thwr
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                                    @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                    @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                    @thwr said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                    @scottalanmiller so you got further than before?

                                    Nope, it just dropped me at the stupid login prompt again 😞

                                    You get to a non-X login prompt? I thought your system is freezing while loading kernel modules 😉

                                    No, it gets to a useless prompt. A prompt means that it has failed. It is supposed to drop to a live desktop that allows for doing installs.

                                    Ah ok, assumed something else when I had a look at the picture you posted above. Sorry, can't help here - you are probably much more proficient with desktops on Linux.

                                    I've moved on from that issue 🙂 Safe mode seems to bypass it.

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                                      scottalanmiller @Romo
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                                      @Romo said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                      I carried out a fresh install of 16.04 on my ASUS GL552VW.

                                      We have the same laptop? that's awesome! LOL

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                                        scottalanmiller @Romo
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                                        @Romo said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                        Installation of 16.04 is much less hassle than previous versions.

                                        In theory, this is 16.04 under the hood.

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                                          scottalanmiller @Romo
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                                          @Romo said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                          With those settings, everything works. Touchpad, Skylake support, nVidia graphics @ 1920x1080, Wifi, Bluetooth, keyboard backlight.

                                          That's more than works under Windows 10!

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                                            Romo @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                            @Romo said in Linux Installation Issues:

                                            I carried out a fresh install of 16.04 on my ASUS GL552VW.

                                            We have the same laptop? that's awesome! LOL

                                            No, it is a quote from ask Ubuntu, I just can't format it while using my mobile

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