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18.04 (all flavours) are not working on ASUS GL 503 VD-FYI Nvidia GeForce GTX1050. Whether by update (17.04) or new install. I tried nomodeset option but got a black screen in response!

Hee Jin
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Stéphane Schmitt
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  • When you say not working, how far do you get? 1) Are you able to boot the install disk and start the install? 2) Does the install go all the way to the reboot, then fail? 3) When you get the black screen are you able to use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get to a console and log in so that you can do the repair work there? – L. D. James May 08 '18 at 10:12
  • Hi, yes i can start (try without install) with usb flashdisk. Process stop with paperwall background and nothing else. No mouse or keybord. Fisrt i had made and update from 17.10 to 18.04 and same issue. I try with "nomodeset" option at boot flashdisk too... and i've the black screen here. i have not try ctrl + alt + f3 – Stéphane Schmitt May 09 '18 at 10:47
  • https://askubuntu.com/a/785762/186740 this was the simplest way around the whole issue without adding ppa sources – Vindicated Halcyon Jul 15 '19 at 09:39

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I have an Asus GL503VD, I7/1050, i believe the internals are quite the same.

Install

  1. On grub menu press e to edit boot config.
  2. Add acpi_osi=! after quiet splash.
  3. Press ctrl+x to boot.

Thats whats needed to boot. Maybe during install you also need nomodeset, i'm not sure.

After install edit the file /etc/default/grub/ and modify the CMLD_LINUX_DEFAULT line to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=!"

All works fine. Except touchpad and keyboard special keys. I'm still looking for a solution for these.

Update 30/05/2018

Working on ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.17-rc6, nvidia 396.

Fixed on latest kernel 4.17.0-rc6 using nvidia 396 (installed from ubuntu graphics ppa).

No more black screen of death, works Touchpad (except for the (five finger tap freeze), brightness (but not keys) and everything else.

I believe in a long term the solution will be merged on kernel.

NVIDIA Driver Install

Boot with acpi_osi=!, add ubuntu graphics ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get update

Install nvidia latest graphics (current on post 396.X).

Kernel install

Go to: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and look for latest kernel. Current on answer 4.17rc6

Download for amd64: linux-headers, linux-headers-XXXXX-generic, linux-image-XXXXX-generic, linux-modules-XXXX-generic.

Leave all inside a folder. Open in bash and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Boot with default boot parameters. acpi_osi=! is not needed anymore.

Gustavo Garcia
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  • I though this post was dead. I've find the solution and posted on this. Now i updated this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442007/working-acpi-kernel-options-for-asus-fx503vd/445031#445031 – Gustavo Garcia May 30 '18 at 14:08