Re: [tlug] Ubuntu 18.04 - changing grub parameters

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 22:23, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
> Today I decided it was time to get a new workhorse notebooks I bought
> an HP Pavilion 15-cx0009tx, which seemed to have plenty of grunt. I
> installed Ubuntu18.04 on it, and came to grief. Whenever I boot it it
> freezes during or just after logging in. Mrs Google says it's a
> not-uncommon problem with NVIDIA graphics cards.

Thanks for all the suggestions. The problem seems to have been
resolved. I've been running it most of the day including multiple
reboots and had no more freezes.

What I did was reinstall it removing the boot-time login. On booting
I was then able to open a terminal and make the following change to
/etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

and then "sudo update-grub2".

Seems OK now. I've still some things to work on, such as Japanese
input and making suspend/hibernate work.

Jim




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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
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