Ubuntu – 18.04 and Nvidia GeForce GTX1050 – ASUS GL 503

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18.04 (all flavours) are not working on ASUS GL 503 VD-FYI Nvidia GeForce GTX1050. Whether by update (17.04) or new install. I tried nomodeset option but got a black screen in response!

Best Answer

I have an Asus GL503VD, I7/1050, i believe the internals are quite the same.

Install

  1. On grub menu press e to edit boot config.
  2. Add acpi_osi=! after quiet splash.
  3. Press ctrl+x to boot.

Thats whats needed to boot. Maybe during install you also need nomodeset, i'm not sure.

After install edit the file /etc/default/grub/ and modify the CMLD_LINUX_DEFAULT line to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=!"

All works fine. Except touchpad and keyboard special keys. I'm still looking for a solution for these.

Update 30/05/2018

Working on ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.17-rc6, nvidia 396.

Fixed on latest kernel 4.17.0-rc6 using nvidia 396 (installed from ubuntu graphics ppa).

No more black screen of death, works Touchpad (except for the (five finger tap freeze), brightness (but not keys) and everything else.

I believe in a long term the solution will be merged on kernel.

NVIDIA Driver Install

Boot with acpi_osi=!, add ubuntu graphics ppa:

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

Install nvidia latest graphics (current on post 396.X).

Kernel install

Go to: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and look for latest kernel. Current on answer 4.17rc6

Download for amd64: linux-headers, linux-headers-XXXXX-generic, linux-image-XXXXX-generic, linux-modules-XXXX-generic.

Leave all inside a folder. Open in bash and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Boot with default boot parameters. acpi_osi=! is not needed anymore.

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