nVidia issues and installation
  • siawacshsiawacsh
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    Hello, as per my
    introduction I have been experiencing nVidia problems on Mint 16 and
    17 and Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10.

    The symptoms have
    been when I boot into the live image I end up with a desktop without
    a taskbar or mouse cursur. That means I cannot perform any tasks. Not
    even to run the install command.

    Later I read about
    having to first install the driver in safe graphics mode. In case of
    Mint I had to


    press F4 to go into
    safe graphics or comaptibility mode. This way I could get a proper
    desktop to allow me to install the image. Once installed I still had
    to find a way to boot into safe graphics mode to install the
    appropriate nVidia drivers.

    I put up this
    question on the Mint forum as early as last March which got over 70
    views but only one reply two nights ago. LUBUNTU more or less the
    same. Strangely the latest version of Linux Lite was fine based on
    Ubuntu 12.04 is fine but it bit too light for me.

    Unfortunately, LXLE
    had the same graphics problems, although it manifested this slightly
    differently. For example when I boot into the image I notice the
    mouse and touchpad arrow and cursur are hidden.

    Pressing F4 on boot
    does bring up compatibility mode as in Mint. So I have no idea how
    to get safe graphic pre or post install.

    I am totally baffled
    why this exact issue has not been properly flagged by the two big
    players at Ubuntu Mint. There are plenty people using my graphics
    card.

    My hardware is a
    five year old Sager NP9280 Intel i7 quad core nVidia Gforce GTX 280M.

    Here is the solution
    I found to eventually install Mint 17.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKkuzWlaGo

    I have no problem
    paying for the support as long as it is responsive and provide
    results.

    If you can show me
    how to get into compatibility mode in LXLE to install the OS please
    let me and get my Cannon Lide 200 scanner to work please let me know.

    Having said that, I
    would much prefer to make sure LXLE is as robust has robust support
    for my scanner before full comital. I don't want to spend another
    three days havign to trouble shoot and thereore hope your support
    would be more responsive than Mint/Ubuntu. Again, I am more than
    happy to pay for your time.

    I look forward to
    your feedback.

    Regards


    Siawacsh









  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    Linux Lite is slightly heavier than LXLE so I'm not quite sure it would be a good fit, also there does seem to be some ongoing issues using ubuntu based distro with that particular hardware regardless of it age. Perhaps a different distro entirely maybe one based off of debian, which is the basis of Ubuntu might work better.

    If you are still willing to try and get LXLE installed, the second or third selection on the splash screen of the installer offers an option to boot with failsafe graphics, or perhaps try the direct install option as well.
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