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Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

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On 8/16/2020 8:20 AM, Andrew Cater wrote:
> No, that's OK. Grab a netinst or the DVD image: you can use mirrors - 
> the critical thing is that you don't install any graphics drivers over 
> and above the text mode drivers, you don't try to use the graphical 
> install - nothing graphical. Once you've got a minimal install, then 
> you can try adding the firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-misc-nonfree 
> build-essential - which will get the AMD GPU drivers for the Ryzen and 
> also the bits you need to build the Nvidia modules. At that point, you 
> might need either the bumblebee or the bumblebee-nvidia (so the 
> proprietary drivers) as listed above. Then you add the environment.
>
> As you go through the expert install, at one point it asks you if you 
> want to use contrib and non-free drivers and whether you want to add 
> apt-src to allow  imports of source code to build - answer yes to all 
> of these. If you don't do an expert install, you don't get to see the 
> lower priority questions that get asked in the background, hence my 
> insistence on expert install mode (which is under advanced on the boot 
> menu).
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 3:02 PM Duval Coetzer 
> <duval.coetzer98@gmail.com <mailto:duval.coetzer98@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi man YES it is the one with the dual graphics cards. sadly it
>     isnt intel but it runs a Ryzen chip and switches to Nvidia. The
>     problem that I have is that when I search for the nvidia graphics
>     to upgrade to then it doesnt find it. I dont know if I am messing
>     up. How do I boot using media? Oh snap okay I will chack again.
>     the thing is when I do the install I wipe everything again. I am
>     having cellphone problems so I need to write the instructions down
>     of what I am going to do. So let me get this right. After I boot
>     from a bootable usb with Debian on it I select the installation
>     that is non graphical. I dont update using mirrors which will give
>     me the terminal after reboot. Where do I find the checkbox that
>     asks for nonfree and contrib? Once I reboot what is the command
>     line for bumblebee? I probably have to find my spicific drivers on
>     their site right? Well I am still roughly new you lost me after
>     building the modules. Thank you for the help!
>
>     On 8/16/20 4:06 PM, Andrew Cater wrote:
>>     Hi David,
>>
>>     OK. If this is one of the laptops with dual graphics cards where
>>     it will often use an Intel graphics chip for simple tasks and
>>     switch to Nvidia embedded card for more complex graphics/gaming?.
>>     Stop. Get prepared for a more complicated process. Boot using
>>     media. Do a text mode expert install - this will ask you lots of
>>     questions but, critically, will allow you to produce a minimal
>>     installation that is text mode only. When asked, add non-free and
>>     contrib repositories: uncheck the box for a graphical / X Windows
>>     environment. Once a minimal text mode install is complete, allow
>>     the computer to shut down. Reboot, use apt or aptitude to install
>>     and run the bumblebee program to set up the nvidia drivers and
>>     the dependencies you need to build modules: you can use either
>>     the free drivers which will give you nouveau or the proprietary
>>     driver.  Build and install any necessary modules. At no point
>>     until after that is completed, should you try installing X or a
>>     graphic environment. Shutdown and reboot. At that point, use the
>>     tasksel program to add the graphics environment and desktop
>>     environment that you want.
>>
>>     Do this in the wrong order and it _will_ fail / appear to work
>>     briefly then randomly crash - I had very similar problems with
>>     one series of MSI laptops - trying to explain this to someone who
>>     didn't understand Linux at all was painful - I think it took me
>>     five or six installs and a couple of days to work out a passable
>>     install sequence that worked consistently thereafter.
>>
>>     Andy C
>>
>>     On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 9:28 AM Duval Coetzer
>>     <duval.coetzer98@gmail.com <mailto:duval.coetzer98@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello I have problems with the Debian distro in general with
>>         the A15
>>         gaming laptop. I have tried all major Debian distros like
>>         Ubuntu Mint
>>         Kali and even Debian itself. The problem as such is after
>>         successful
>>         install of the operating system , at boot I get an error
>>         which keeps me
>>         from booting. I have tried setting the nouveau modeset= 0 and
>>         nomodeset=0 which causes it to load further than my initial
>>         error but I
>>         still dont reach the GUI. I am running dual graphics and I tried
>>         updating the software by going into the terminal after
>>         hitting another
>>         error but it still doesnt boot. Please help. The only
>>         opperating system
>>         I can run at the moment is Opensuse Tumbleweed.
>>
>>         Kind regards.
>>
Hi Andy,

I have this same issue and was just about ready to ask the same question 
Duval had.  So I jumped on your post and followed instructions to the 
letter.  But I still do not get a graphical login.

When prompted during the graphical install, I went with the lightdm 
display manager.

When I rebooted, I got a blank window with a blinking cursor in the 
upper left corner.

Investigation yielded the following:

     The blank screen is tty7, still in text mode.

     Running 'pgrep light' yielded nothing.

     Running lightdm manually generated a warning about missing 
/var/lib/lightdm/data, switched screen to tty7.

     Screen was as before.  No lightdm is running, it just exits.

     /var/lib/lightdm exists but is empty.  I tried creating 
/var/lib/lightdm/data with perms of 777.

     The warning went away but lightdm is still not running.

The sddm manager was also installed so I switched 
/etc/X11/default-display-manager to point to it.  This failed 
completely, not even reaching tty7.  In fact, tty7 could not be switched 
to.  Perhaps this is not the right way to switch display managers?

Suggestions on next steps?

Thanks.

Bob

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Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Duval Coetzer <duval.coetzer98@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 11:30 +0200
  Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 13:10 +0200
  Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-08-16 16:10 +0200
    Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-08-16 17:30 +0200
      Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Bob McGowan <ramjr0915@gmail.com> - 2020-08-18 02:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15 Bob McGowan <ramjr0915@gmail.com> - 2020-08-18 21:20 +0200

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