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I've downloaded/tested the USB live version of Ubuntu 18 on my Desktop and decided to try and install it on my laptop. The laptop is a bit older, runs a 64bit CPU (Intel Q9000). When I try to boot to the USB drive, I see first the regular boot screen (keyboard + circle on bottom), followed by a command line blinking. Then, the screen goes into a pixel test mode, showing all RGB + grayscale test patterns and I hear a drum sound once.

When I try F4 to enter the debug mode, the same issue happens after selecting install.

Any advice?

petaris
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Live drive

I think you need the boot option nomodeset to make it work with that graphics card. The following link and links from it can help you enter nomodeset in the correct way, Boot options.

Installed system

After installation you can

  • use nomodeset again (with grub), and you can add it such that it persists. See this link

    Grub2/Setup - /etc/default/grub

    Scroll down to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash", where you can add nomodeset to make it 

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

    and after you have saved the edited file

    sudo nano /etc/default/grub

    run

    sudo update-grub

  • The next step is to install an nvidia proprietary driver to make Ubuntu work with your graphics chip/card. Try according to the following links

    How do I install the proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 17.10?

    Installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers?

    You can list the available driver packages with the following command line,

    LANG=C apt-cache policy nvidia*|grep -B2 -E 'Candidate.*ubuntu'

    nvidia-384 is the driver package with the highest revision number, that I find in my 18.04.1 LTS system, and it can be installed with

    sudo apt install nvidia-384

    You can start trying with that package.

  • But sometimes the free nouveau driver, that is installed automatically, will work better than the best proprietary driver.

sudodus
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