Now, there are several ways you can try to disable these drivers. This incompatibility with open source version of NVIDIA drivers caused the issue so what we can do here is to disable these drivers. Remember, our problem is with the NVIDIA Graphics drivers. Go to line starting with Linux Step 2: Temporarily Modifying Linux kernel parameters in Grub You should focus on the line that starts with Linux.

You should see some sort of code like the one below. If you don’t see this screen, keep holding Shift key at the boot time.Īt this screen, press ‘E’ key to go into the editing mode. When you boot your system, just stop at the Grub screen like the one below. Without further delay, let’s see how to fix this problem. Please check which graphics card do you have on your Linux system. I have updated this tutorial with two solutions: one works for both Intel and NVIDIA/AMD and the other is exclusively for systems with AMD/NVIDIA graphics card. Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel for more Linux Tutorials The installation was quick, easy and painless. I dual booted Windows 10 with Ubuntu 18.04. This laptop comes with Windows 10 installed on the 120 GB SSD and 1 TB of HDD for storing data. So, when I decided to get a new dedicated device for testing Linux distributions, I opted for a laptop with NVIDIA graphics. A number of It’s FOSS readers asked for my help with their NVIDIA laptops and I could do nothing because I didn’t have a system with NVIDIA graphics card. NVIDIA is known for its poor compatibility with Linux. Acer Predator Helios 300 comes with NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050Ti. The reason why I opted for this gaming laptop even though I don’t game on PC is NVIDIA Graphics. It’s a bulky, heavy built laptop which is in contrast to my liking of smaller, lightweight laptops like the awesome Dell XPS. The other day I bought an Acer Predator laptop ( affiliate link) to test various Linux distribution. The tutorial was performed on a newly installed Ubuntu system but it should be applicable otherwise as well. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to deal with Ubuntu freezing at the boot by installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

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