I fought with the same problem. I have a brand new Asus GL553VW. I wanted to install Linux but I had to face a lot of problems and still have some. The beauty is that it's a gamer laptop and doesn't really have support for Linux...
So, I will write down my past problems and the solution for them.
I had the same freezing issue during the installation. You should go to the grub, where you choose the booting operating system. If it doesn't appear by default, you should press Shift until you see it.
- Then choose the Ubuntu, or Install Ubuntu (it depends, you will see
it hopefully), go to it with the arrows and press the '
e' key.
- Here go to the line which contains
quiet splash at the end
and add acpi=off after these words.
- Then press F10 to boot with these settings.
The installer didn't freeze for me after that. However, you should be aware of that it changes only for the initial boot, after it, when you want to install Linux, you need to change it again.
The next problem I faced was that after booting, in one minute the fans started to scream and work at maximum speed. Other was that the shutdown freezed and I had to press the shutdown key longly.
The solution to both of these was to install nvidia.
Type in terminal:
sudo apt-get install nvidia
Press tab twice and see which nvidia is the newest. For example, it will look like:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-352
Hopefully it will be the same for you.
Next problem: the fn keys. Only the volume control worked with it. Unfortunately I haven't find an exact solution yet. I'm trying, but it would need a driver, which I'm afraid doesn't exist. However, I set my shortcuts in settings and after that, at least for instance the brightness control works (but with another key combination). The only bug which I faced then was that the keyboard backlight doesn't work whatever I do (in Windows, it's perfect after the installation of drivers from the given CD). I'm trying to solve it. Hopefully I will find a way to bring it to life.
I haven't found any other bugs yet, and I hope I won't. I haven't started to use it really...
Hope I could help you! :)
I have solved. I recommend you don't use UNetbootin to create the bootable USB; instead use Rufus if you are in Windows or use the command line if you are in Linux (dd command). The main problem was with the graphics drivers and these are the steps I followed to solve this issue:
Once you have launched the bootable USB and you see the GRUB menu, move the selector to Try Ubuntu or Boot from live disk, whichever option comes.
Press E in order to edit the install command you are about to run. Go to the line that starts with word linux (the one with the words quiet splash), go to the end of this line and after the --- put the following words: nouveau.setmode=0.
Press f10 to boot the system
You can now run the installer
After reboot, repeat steps 2 and 3
Once you have booted go to terminal and type
sudo apt-get install nvidia-384
(384 is the latest and more stable driver version at the moment, replace this number with the last driver version you find on nvidia site in the future).
Now from menu go to Additional Drivers, go to proprietary drivers tab, select nvidia drivers and reboot
Last thing: if you experience screen tearing during Ubuntu use I suggest you to read the answer to this question.
Best Answer
You need to boot with
nomodesetparameter, then install Ubuntu, then boot withnomodesetthe installed system.This is the guide how to boot with nomodeset.
Then you will need to install video drivers