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ThinkPad setup

Notes from installing Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme, with nvidia graphics.

  • Turn off secure boot in the BIOS.

Installer freezing / non-responsive

  • When choosing operating system to boot (options will be Ubuntu, or Install Ubuntu...) hover over Install Ubuntu.
  • Press e
  • Go to the line that contains quiet splash and append acpi=off
  • Press ctrl + x to boot

Installing nvidia drivers

Add nvidia PPA to ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

Update and install

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-415
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aarontan-git commented Sep 3, 2019

what bios version are you on during this installation?

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davipatti commented Sep 5, 2019

I'm sorry I didn't record what version I was on when I was doing this. Since doing this I think I might have updated the bios.

I subsequently installed pop!_os and can highly recommend it. It is built on top of ubuntu.

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