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Credit goes to ajgringo619, and thru him, catweazel.
SAimplicity is the essence of elegant, Plus the fact
I'm lazy.
now I have a decent mint 19 machine.
disk partitioning - I can help you with.
for linux mint 19 install onto
a ASUS Prime X399-A motherboard with a threadripper 2290WX cpu
and two NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] with 2 gigs video ram
used only one video card to install with.
installed the latest bios for the motherboard.
set motherboard bios to factory defaults
2 exceptions set time and date
set num lock off at boot
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Linux video cludge between ==== lines
after motherboard bios boot
"esc" once
linux boot menu options appears
"e" (for edit mode)
add nomodeset after quiet splash - make sure
you do not overwrite anything, and needs a space
before and after nomodeset
F10 to save changes and continue the boot.
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Install Mint 19
at the requested reboot,
repeat the Linux video cludge as above
then as per other posts in here to add nomodeset into grub file.
arctic@Ripper64:~$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub
[sudo] password for arctic:
arctic@Ripper64:~$ sudo update-grub <<<<----does not work here...
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 10: /etc/default/grub: nomodeset: not found
arctic@Ripper64:~$
Now I deal with my needed video drivers.
my 2 video cards are as below
arctic@Ripper64:~$ inxi -SMCGx
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] bus-ID: 41:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: fbdev,nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,vesa)
Resolution: 800x600@75.00hz OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits)
version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 Direct Render: Yes
Use these commands to remove any Nvidia driver files:
sudo apt purge *nvidia* && sudo apt autoremove
reboot or Logout/ Login.
Use this command and post the output:
inxi -SMCGx
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa && sudo apt-get update <-from add'l repositories
apt search nvidia | grep 410 <-- only needed to see additional sources
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-410 nvidia-prime nvidia-dkms-410 nvidia-settings
have not used
sudo apt-get install *nvidia*
my working fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
#above was line after UUID=DB6A-2776 etc <--this removes swap from m2 ssd
#
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=750a3294-a3a1-4977-b4d5-d78414efbd9e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=DB6A-2776 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
PARTLABEL="Old System" /home/arctic/oldsystem ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
LABEL="Seti-Data-2" /var/lib/boinc-client ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
PARTLABEL="Swapper" none swap sw 0 0
PARTLABEL="Sata-Data-3" /var/lib/boinc-client ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
PARTLABEL="Temp-Files" /tmp ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
LABEL="Seti-Data" /var/lib/boinc-client ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
LABEL="500-GB" /home/arctic/oldsystem vfat errors=remount-ro 0 2
PARTLABEL="Ripper64-Swap" none swap sw 0 0
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Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050]
bus-ID: 41:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: fbdev,nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,vesa)
Resolution: 800x600@75.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits)
version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 Direct Render: Yes
arctic@Ripper64:~$ inxi -SMCGx (for above output)
sudo apt-get install nvidia GP107 (does not work - sigh)
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arctic@Ripper64:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings && sudo nvidia-xconfig
[sudo] password for arctic:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-current is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'nvidia-current' has no installation candidate
arctic@Ripper64:~$
I have jre-8u191-linux-x64.tar.gz a 64 bit java
install - BUT - how to use it?
this is needed for Nvidia site to select right driver for my GP 107 card.
It is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 aka PH-GTA1050 series card
with 2 gigs of video memory. (NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050])
or is there another way to solve this?
Synaptic, nor Driver manager does not appear to help.
I'm a linux newby.
thank you for your help in advance guys and gals.
