X170KM-G booting problem Kubuntu

Hello

Just got my new Laptop

Based on:

insyde Bios
I9 10900 CPU
32gb
Mother Board Series X170KM-G
NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 8GB

The install goes without a hitch. But when it goes to reboot. I do that and it comes up with the BIOS LOGO and then it just stays there. I have it working on Linux Mint etc..

Does anyone have any ideas.

regards

Mark

 

Might be the exact package you are using.

 

Ubuntu doesn’t boot either

 

Are you have the same problem ?? Or do you mean have I tried installing Ubuntu ??

I think it might maybe related to KDE/Plasma.

As I tried Open SUSE with KDE/PLASMA and after install and re boot it just went blank. Did it with GNOME and it installed and rebooted fine

 

I tried Ubuntu but it didn’t install

 

Guess you have same machine as well.

I am currently using Linux Mint Cinnamon. But I had to manually install the driver from the Nvidia site. I have also no sound

 

I don’t know anything about Linux audio sorry

 

Right decided to redo this.

So after messing about on the X170KM-G myself trying to go down the ways of installing Linux i have learned the following.

The BIOSes DSDT hates anything that is not Windows, wonder whom's idea that was.
Anyway i have tested most common distro's of linux each have something in common.

Once you booted your .iso image or USB flash driver and are greeted with a menu press E ,

once you have done this simply look for the line which has splash or quiet and go to the end of that line and add.

Code:

nomodeset acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=Linux

Now press F10 or Enter and it will boot the installer.

Once you have installed the OS and you go to boot up again do the same thing you did to the Installer and boot into your os.

If the OS installs grub2 then its easy simply open up terminal and issue

Code:

sudo nano /etc/defaults/grub

Add the extra switches from above press CTRL+O to save the file the issue the command

Code:

sudo update-grub

You will no longer need to add the switches at boot, this will allow the Power management etc to work.

If your OS of choice uses Kernel 5.14 or lower you will noticed that the Soundcard although detected doesn't produce any sound but don't worry upgrading the kernel to 5.15 will solve that issue, i used mainline to perform this.

Now for the bad news SDCard reader is detected in a sense however placing any SDCards in there will corrupt them i had a 16GB microsd report back as 30mb and it can't be fixed.

If your system is taking forever to boot TURN OFF Thunderbolt in the bios changes the boot speed from grab a coffee to blink i missed it.

As for the keyboard and fans thats my next hurdle to figure out.