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April 17th, 2019 06:00

Aurora R8, installing Linux?

Hi guys,

Have you guys tried installing Linux on Aurora R8?

I have a R8 with i9 CPU and the RTX 2080, but when I tried to install Ubuntu X doesn't really like it.

Or of the box it just freezes with a black screen with cursor on the X. 

I switched to a terminal and found out it was complaining about permission. (Something xserver-xorg-legacy was supposed to fix but I also had to change a file permission)

After fixing that and rebooting it states to complain about busID. So I decided to install the latest Nvidia driver 418.56.

After booting up and configuring the correct certificates to Mok and so on, it is now freezing with a X open, but nothing on it. Just that Ubuntu's purple-ish background.

I can't flip to other console screen to check the logs, alt+ctrl+del doesn't work.

Just the power button.

Have you guys seen that?

Any experience that could be helpful in this case?

Thank you!

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April 24th, 2019 23:00

Ubuntu 19.04 worked done in safe graphics mode.

Running a few tests to make sure it is all good.

 

Cheers!

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January 27th, 2020 04:00

I know this is an old post but perhaps can help others that may be interested in running Linux as their OS.  See the following article "Alienware Aurora R8 Linux Manjaro Install"

 

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