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I'm trying to run a live version of Ubuntu 18.04 but as soon as I click on "Try Ubuntu" the mouse' cursor disappears and the system gets stuck.

I tryed to click install and then exit, I was able to move the window and I saw a standard "ubuntu has experienced an internal error", but as I click continue another popup appears, telling me a live desktop would be launched and then the system gets stuck like before.

My clevo P640RE laptop:

  • i7-6700HQ
  • 8GB ram
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
  • Intel Wireless 8260
dadexix86
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Daniele Gamba
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    Maybe the boot option nomodeset will help with the nvidia graphics card. If you get it working this way, you can try later to install a proprietary nvidia graphics driver to use the full power of the graphics card. – sudodus Apr 28 '18 at 09:04
  • Thanks @sudodus, i achieved booting live with nomodeset. How this could impact my system once i install it? – Daniele Gamba Apr 28 '18 at 09:22
  • You can use nomodeset also in the installed system. And later on try a proprietary nvidia graphics driver. You can keep nomodeset in your installed system. See Grub2/Setup. -- GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX Entries on this line are added to the end of the 'linux' command line (GRUB legacy's "kernel" line) for both normal and recovery modes. It is used to pass options to the kernel. – sudodus Apr 28 '18 at 09:48
  • You are welcome and good luck :-) – sudodus Apr 28 '18 at 09:52

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I solved this issue thanks to @sudodus.
For others with the same problem, while booting Ubuntu 18.04 press F6. A menu will appear with different options, pressing F6 and e you could edit the boot options, just add nomodeset before quiet splash and press enter.

Once installed you can install proprietary drivers to use the dedicated graphic card.

Daniele Gamba
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  • Thanks for sharing your solution :-) You can click on the tick symbol to 'accept' the answer (self-answering is OK when there is no good answer by someone else and in this case there are only the short comments from me). It will indicate for other people, that there is a good answer to this particular question. – sudodus Apr 29 '18 at 08:10
  • Actually it's your ahahha – Daniele Gamba Apr 29 '18 at 08:12
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    @DanieleGamba but you can still click your answer after a couple of days to accept it. It helps other readers know what works. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Apr 29 '18 at 19:34
  • Linux users have long had a love-hate relationship with Nvidia. Linus Torvalds literally gave it the middle finger a few years ago. Torvalds also called them “the single worst company” the Linux developer community has ever had to deal with. – Hitesh Sahu Nov 14 '18 at 10:36