I'm interested in buying an MSI GP73 Leopard 8RE Laptop. What about using Ubuntu on it?
Does it work well?
Can I buy it with Windows 10 and install Ubuntu on first use?
I'm interested in buying an MSI GP73 Leopard 8RE Laptop. What about using Ubuntu on it?
Does it work well?
Can I buy it with Windows 10 and install Ubuntu on first use?
Solved! :)
I entered #linuxmint-help IRC channel and with help of orcus and mtn I made my machine really FLYING :) Thanks, guys, one more time. In Mint there is a shortcut to this channel in Welcome Screen.
Now I'm running on Mint 19.1 MATE 64-bit.
The issue was solved by adding nomodeset in grub settings during firts boot (while booting from USB I used Compaltibility Mode). Just hold Shift while it's booting and grub menu appears. With first entry marked press e to edit and add nomodeset parameter to second line from the bottom. You will guess where. There are hints at the bottom of screen how to operate. After installing I didn't have to change anything in grub settings. Just installed nvidia drivers in System Settings; during installation I installed all upgrades and it was good. Exceptions will be described below. In hope for making things even better I also installed newest kernel via Update Manager as guys on IRC channel told me.
The only issue is missing sound and alsamixer did not start. System does not detect soundcard properly so I need to do more research on newest hardware, but for my work sound is the last thing I need to fix.
Edit: Sound on speakers is working now. Next day I discovered that headphones started working (I did nothing in the system). Alsamixer as well, but still silence on speakers. Seems there is a bug. I noticed in alsamixer, that it's muting speakers after connecting headphones and opposite when I unplug. So for test I turned up volume on headphones (unplugged) and speakers started playing. Looks like the program changes only indicators but not real output.
Edit2: I managed to get sound working good enough. Before investigation I thought of 2 things: 1. alsamixer does not store settings or 2. alsamixer fails to restore settings at boot
After severals tests with saving various states and comparing contents of /var/lib/alsa/asound.state I discovered that it stores the settings correctly but does not restore them at boot. So I added script at start with "alsactl restore" command and it restores volume's levels do default. BTW: when used without sudo it restores to default volumes (initializes soundcard actually) and with sudo - to saved levels.
Problem STILL exists: after unplugging headphones I have to restore settings by manually starting the script.
//End of Edit2
Hibernating and suspending works suspicious. Haven't tested it thoroughly because with that BOOST who would care if the system is suspending or shutting down ;)
I hope someone finds this post useful.
Cheers!