Hi man YES it is the one with the dual graphics cards. sadly it isnt intel but it runs a Ryzen chip and switches to Nvidia. The problem that I have is that when I search for the nvidia graphics to upgrade to then it doesnt find it. I dont know if I am messing up. How do I boot using media? Oh snap okay I will chack again. the thing is when I do the install I wipe everything again. I am having cellphone problems so I need to write the instructions down of what I am going to do. So let me get this right. After I boot from a bootable usb with Debian on it I select the installation that is non graphical. I dont update using mirrors which will give me the terminal after reboot. Where do I find the checkbox that asks for nonfree and contrib? Once I reboot what is the command line for bumblebee? I probably have to find my spicific drivers on their site right? Well I am still roughly new you lost me after building the modules. Thank you for the help!
On 8/16/20 4:06 PM, Andrew Cater wrote:
Hi David,
OK. If this is one of the laptops with dual graphics cards where it will often use an Intel graphics chip for simple tasks and switch to Nvidia embedded card for more complex graphics/gaming?. Stop. Get prepared for a more complicated process. Boot using media. Do a text mode expert install - this will ask you lots of questions but, critically, will allow you to produce a minimal installation that is text mode only. When asked, add non-free and contrib repositories: uncheck the box for a graphical / X Windows environment. Once a minimal text mode install is complete, allow the computer to shut down. Reboot, use apt or aptitude to install and run the bumblebee program to set up the nvidia drivers and the dependencies you need to build modules: you can use either the free drivers which will give you nouveau or the proprietary driver. Build and install any necessary modules. At no point until after that is completed, should you try installing X or a graphic environment. Shutdown and reboot. At that point, use the tasksel program to add the graphics environment and desktop environment that you want.
Do this in the wrong order and it _will_ fail / appear to work briefly then randomly crash - I had very similar problems with one series of MSI laptops - trying to explain this to someone who didn't understand Linux at all was painful - I think it took me five or six installs and a couple of days to work out a passable install sequence that worked consistently thereafter.
Andy C
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 9:28 AM Duval Coetzer <duval.coetzer98@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello I have problems with the Debian distro in general with the A15
gaming laptop. I have tried all major Debian distros like Ubuntu Mint
Kali and even Debian itself. The problem as such is after successful
install of the operating system , at boot I get an error which keeps me
from booting. I have tried setting the nouveau modeset= 0 and
nomodeset=0 which causes it to load further than my initial error but I
still dont reach the GUI. I am running dual graphics and I tried
updating the software by going into the terminal after hitting another
error but it still doesnt boot. Please help. The only opperating system
I can run at the moment is Opensuse Tumbleweed.
Kind regards.