blakethepatton · July 1, 2018 07:09
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 Just some notes I'm keeping for myself about my install that got things working - in case 
 I screw things up at some later point.

 Get a drive with ubuntu installer image on it. 
 Run the check the drive utility to make sure things are all good before installing (You dealt 
 with a bad drive before, everythin looked good, but things didn't work perfect)

 Install ubuntu via the second option, "install ubuntu" not through the try it first.
 It crashed at the reboot part of the process

 Now you boot in and you can't log in. Easy fix.
 Switch over to the terminal ctrl+alt+f2
 log in
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade -y


 sudo vi /etc/default/grub

 hit 'i' to insert or insert key

 Change:
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
 To: 
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.modeset=0 button.lid_init_state=open quiet splash"
 (disable nouveau drivers, set the lid closed action to work correct)

 esc, wq enter
 sudo update-grub

 sudo shutdown -r now
 It might hang again, I don't remember, I think it worked though...

 now you can log in
 Go to software and updates, additional drivers, install nvidia propriatary drivers

 reboot

 Install bumblebee? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee
 The documentation seems unclear, but I'm pretty sure this allows you to switch between using 
 the cpu for graphics to the built in card. Install process is taking forever, so I'm taking 
 down some notes of everything that I had to do.

 Well that hung... so I killed it and removed those applications and then re-added them. Worked the second time.

 I've turned off screen blacking, doesn't seem to come back from that. And now I've begun adding in the razer drivers via their package.

 DO NOT INSTALL RAZER BULLCRAP DRIVERS. I have had to reinstall everything after trying to install their drivers. Like their hardware, their software is poorly built. 

 So far I've noticed that the battery life isn't amazing. I suspect that everything is being rendered by the GPU instead of the iGPU on the CPU. I've also noticed that my webcam doesn't seem to work amazingly. It's super glitchy. I'm hoping the razer drivers will help out with that.
	Just some notes I'm keeping for myself about my install that got things working - in case
	I screw things up at some later point.

	Get a drive with ubuntu installer image on it.
	Run the check the drive utility to make sure things are all good before installing (You dealt
	with a bad drive before, everythin looked good, but things didn't work perfect)

	Install ubuntu via the second option, "install ubuntu" not through the try it first.
	It crashed at the reboot part of the process

	Now you boot in and you can't log in. Easy fix.
	Switch over to the terminal ctrl+alt+f2
	log in
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get upgrade -y


	sudo vi /etc/default/grub

	hit 'i' to insert or insert key

	Change:
	GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
	To:
	GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.modeset=0 button.lid_init_state=open quiet splash"
	(disable nouveau drivers, set the lid closed action to work correct)

	esc, wq enter
	sudo update-grub

	sudo shutdown -r now
	It might hang again, I don't remember, I think it worked though...

	now you can log in
	Go to software and updates, additional drivers, install nvidia propriatary drivers

	reboot

	Install bumblebee? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee
	The documentation seems unclear, but I'm pretty sure this allows you to switch between using
	the cpu for graphics to the built in card. Install process is taking forever, so I'm taking
	down some notes of everything that I had to do.

	Well that hung... so I killed it and removed those applications and then re-added them. Worked the second time.

	I've turned off screen blacking, doesn't seem to come back from that. And now I've begun adding in the razer drivers via their package.

	DO NOT INSTALL RAZER BULLCRAP DRIVERS. I have had to reinstall everything after trying to install their drivers. Like their hardware, their software is poorly built.

	So far I've noticed that the battery life isn't amazing. I suspect that everything is being rendered by the GPU instead of the iGPU on the CPU. I've also noticed that my webcam doesn't seem to work amazingly. It's super glitchy. I'm hoping the razer drivers will help out with that.