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Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

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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>
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.
>
>

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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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