Hello everyone.
I'm getting a little desperate here. Recently i bought an HP Envy 15-J005sp which comes with a GT 740M and decided to isntall Ubuntu along side with the pre-installed windows 8. I'm not even going to talk about the troubles i had to overcome with not being able to boot ubuntu because of efi boot, etc, after installing the OS. Anyway after finnaly being able to boot Ubuntu i found out another problem, the OS would boot into a black screen and i had to force a shutdown. I found out this was related to nvidia drives, so i loaded the OS with nomodeset and in the terminal i ran the following commands:
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-headers-generic
apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
nvidia-xconfig
apt-get install xorg
apt-get instal xserver-xorg lightdm
After reboot i was able to boot ubuntu with it's user interface (without the need of nomodeset), but i only get to view a small portion of the whole desktop and when i try to right click and change resolution i only find a max resolution of 640x480, it's simply unusable.
This is the content of the xorg.cofig file:
#nvidia-xconfig: X configuration fle generated by nvidia-xconfig
#nvidia-xconfig: version 304.88 (buildmeister@Swio-display-x86-rle147-06)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "Corekeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "Corepointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
#generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" " 4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
#generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "Kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDI Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSection
Endsection
I'm getting a little desperate here. Recently i bought an HP Envy 15-J005sp which comes with a GT 740M and decided to isntall Ubuntu along side with the pre-installed windows 8. I'm not even going to talk about the troubles i had to overcome with not being able to boot ubuntu because of efi boot, etc, after installing the OS. Anyway after finnaly being able to boot Ubuntu i found out another problem, the OS would boot into a black screen and i had to force a shutdown. I found out this was related to nvidia drives, so i loaded the OS with nomodeset and in the terminal i ran the following commands:
Quote:
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-headers-generic
apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
nvidia-xconfig
apt-get install xorg
apt-get instal xserver-xorg lightdm
This is the content of the xorg.cofig file:
Quote:
#nvidia-xconfig: X configuration fle generated by nvidia-xconfig
#nvidia-xconfig: version 304.88 (buildmeister@Swio-display-x86-rle147-06)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "Corekeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "Corepointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
#generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" " 4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
#generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "Kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDI Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSection
Endsection