Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .

[brianlittlejohn]

My ROG desktop had a bunch of issues getting any linux to install... mine turned out to be an issue with the nouveau drivers and my Nvidia card.

[DustinB3403]

But those have to be driver related issues. Are you guys saying you actually think that the drivers just aren't there for linux?

[brianlittlejohn]

I had to disable the nouveau driver on boot, and do something else boot related (don't remember what exactly), then install nvidia proprietary drivers to get a linux distro to finally install.

[scottalanmiller]

@brianlittlejohn said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

I had to disable the nouveau driver on boot, and do something else boot related (don't remember what exactly), then install nvidia proprietary drivers to get a linux distro to finally install.

Yeah, none of that works on this model.

[MattSpeller]

The nerve of them to be so biased against Scott

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

@brianlittlejohn said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

I had to disable the nouveau driver on boot, and do something else boot related (don't remember what exactly), then install nvidia proprietary drivers to get a linux distro to finally install.

Yeah, none of that works on this model.

What model?

[scottalanmiller]

@Tim_G said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

@brianlittlejohn said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

I had to disable the nouveau driver on boot, and do something else boot related (don't remember what exactly), then install nvidia proprietary drivers to get a linux distro to finally install.

Yeah, none of that works on this model.

What model?

G522 I think.

[Obsolesce]

So happy right now! I finally was able to get Linux something running 100% on my ROG!

It's so snappy now!

I haven't tested any games yet to verify if GPU is completely functional, but glxgears worked.

[Obsolesce]

@obsolesce said in Asus ROG only allows Scott to install Ubuntu and nothing else. . .:

So happy right now! I finally was able to get Linux something running 100% on my ROG!

It's so snappy now!

I haven't tested any games yet to verify if GPU is completely functional, but glxgears worked.

Here's what worked:

Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.
At logon screen, CTRL+ALT+F2.
Login.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-390
reboot

Working.

[Obsolesce]

I don't have the time right now to download and install a Steam game or get a Windows game working, but I did install Minecraft and at one point got over 600 FPS in full-screen mode.

I don't know if the Intel GPU is capable of that or not, but I'm thinking it's the nVidia. How can I tell?

I'll have to compare it to Windows tomorrow.