As an alternative to the installation of Ubuntu and subsequently fixing all problems, it is possible to install derived distributions from Ubuntu like Pop!_OS with NVIDIA support. In principle this is Ubuntu but with all the drivers necessary to make the graphics card, backlight, ACPI and touchpad work out of the box. The installation does also not require you to select discrete graphics by default, hence your battery life will be better.
Things that need to be changed in the BIOS (for Pop!_OS) are:
Go to the Advanced tab, select Secure Boot Configuration.
Set Legacy Support Enable and Secure Boot Disable
After these changes you are good to go to install Pop!_OS.
@Aboammar
You could try the following procedure from the link given above by @Bourne.
Installation
This assumes a default BIOS setup. If you are unsure, load the BIOS factory defaults before making these proposed changes. You should also create a bootable USB drive with the Linux edition of your choice. (IMS personnel tests with the latest Ubuntu LTS release, which is 18.04 right now.)
Next, make the following BIOS settings changes.[2]
Boot up the laptop and enter the BIOS options (repeatedly press escape during boot), select BIOS settings menu. When fast-boot and secureboot are enabled, this may take several tries.
Go to the Advanced tab, select Secure Boot Configuration.
Set Legacy Support Enable and Secure Boot Disable
Go back to the Advanced settings
Select Built-in device options
Set Graphics to Discrete
Now save and exit the setup, and press F9 to select boot from the USB drive. From the live desktop environment, the system can be installed. If you want to install Linux alongside an existing Windows, it may be useful to acquire a separate SSD hard drive to put Linux on.
In Ubuntu, start Software & Updates, and in the Other Software tab, enable the Canonical Partners repository. After refreshing the index, you'll be able to install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers for the GPU.
NOTE: As of NVIDIA driver version 435.17, hybrid graphics are supported, meaning that setting the graphics to discrete is not longer necessary. You still need to have the Intel graphics driver installed of course, and Xorg has to be version 1.20.7 or later.
No, I was wondering if there is any BIOS settings to temporally disable the problematic discreet GPU.
Once you get to Zorin desktop you can install appropriate driver for it.
Power-On
Press "F10" to enter BIOS Setup
Navigate to "Advanced"
Navigate to "Built-in Device Options"
Set "Graphics" to "Discrete Graphics" (Other options are "Hybrid" and "Auto")
Save and Reboot
Problem Solved. Should be able to Boot and Install at will. (Works with Fedora 30)
Linux has traditionally had issues with laptops with internal and external video.. Best bet is just to force it to pick one..
@FrenchPress i send him all information in last post here how to install linux some link movies if he not understand and link with tutorial for his version laptop.
I just research on google. Nothing special. I know some people don't want waste a time for searching how doing some things. Yes forum is helpfull but I understand also Linux working out from the box - that when they have a Pro and support.
I am a simply a man volunteer. Besides I am using a link and movies because you know my language is not a good.
Yes you should change it to ahci, also make sure you try a different usb drive. I remember i have 2 usb drives. 1 is from sandisk which works with every linux distro out there and i have 1 from mediarange (if i remember the brand right) and that one refuses to boot with linux on some machines.
For future reference, it is always a good idea to check the SHA256 of the downloaded iso against the reference checksum published on the Zorin website, to verify the download is not corrupted. See item 1 in this pre-install list:
Please note that I was able to install Zorin as shared before. The problem is not installing, the problem is that Zorin is not starting correctly as you can see from the previous screenshots which very clearly indicates it is a GPU problem because Zorin got installed.
Hi there,
I have testet a lot and and can confirm that Ubuntu 16.10 works out of the box.
In Ubuntu 16.04 it works for me if I
1) Change so I use NVIDIA binary (I use version 367.57) instead of Nouveau driver (which gives a GPU lockup or something)
2) Set pnpacpi=off in the boot (and remove the quiet splash etc stuff)
This can be done from GRUB pressing 'e' and replace "ro quiet splash" etc with just "ro pnpacpi=off" and booting pressing F10
To do it permanently edit /etc/default/grub to have
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="pnpacpi=off"
and do 'sudo update-grub'
To get into the system and make the changes I had to boot into rescue ("rescue" as parameter in GRUB).
BTW - in the process of experimenting I also had to temporarily disable graphical startup. I did this with
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
and then I only had a prompt where I could do this to start graphics manually:
sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm start
To revert to graphical startup do:
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
This is all with these BIOS settings:
1- change the UEFI boot option to legacy boot option
2- change the Hybrid Graphics option to Discrete Graphics option
Last edited by jacob-nordfalk; November 16th, 2016 at 09:20 AM.
