16.04 freezing on desktop at startup.

[Elliot young]

This is what happens after the kubuntu loading screen. The cursor is visible while the progress bar is loading but after that the system becomes unresponsive.

I am using a simple am3 amd gigabyte motherboard with an athalon 3.0 2x x64. It runs windows, hyrens, puppy, and I'm sure Ubuntu just fine.

What's so special about plasma 5 and KDE that this is happening?

[Elliot young]

#year of linux desktop

[Snowhog]

What graphics card is in your PC? Does your motherboard have onboard graphics (Intel) as well?

[Elliot young]

What graphics card is in your PC? Does your motherboard have onboard graphics (Intel) as well?

Integrated graphics using this motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3726#ov

[Elliot young]

How do I go about selecting the correct driver and doing this? Back in the day I would choose the open driver and edit my config file. From what I know linux has changed an uses systemd and also does not use xorg.conf in the new distros like debian and ubuntu. I have root shell access but don't know which driver to pick and how to configure it.

[acheron]

Integrated graphics using this motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3726#ov

Your link is broken.

[Elliot young]

Your link is broken.

Fixed in post. Here is is again: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3726#ov



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http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3726#ov

[GreyGeek]

The recommend NVIDIA Linux driver for the GeForce 7025/nForce 630, which is nine years old and a legacy chip, is here but that driver should be in the 16.04 repository as:

nvidia-304
NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.131

and it will be easier to install 304 from the repository.

[Elliot young]

The recommend NVIDIA Linux driver for the GeForce 7025/nForce 630, which is nine years old and a legacy chip, is here but that driver should be in the 16.04 repository as:

and it will be easier to install 304 from the repository.

can you give me a really quick tutorial of how to select it as the driver once I install it with apt-get? So yeah, how to specify driver once installed?

[Snowhog]

IF it's in the standard Ubuntu repositories; those that are 'active' during/after installation, then from a konsole you should just have to type: sudo apt-get install nvidia-304

This is assuming that that is the actual package name in the repositories (I never assume, even when one of our knowledgable members has made the citation). IF it is the actual package name, then it will install.

[GreyGeek]

IF it's in the standard Ubuntu repositories; those that are 'active' during/after installation, then from a konsole you should just have to type: sudo apt-get install nvidia-304

This is assuming that that is the actual package name in the repositories (I never assume, even when one of our knowledgable members has made the citation). IF it is the actual package name, then it will install.

Yup, my memory has no CRC parity error check, but if the copy function didn't forget then that is the name of the driver.

[Elliot young]

Solved

Solution is here: http://askubuntu.com/a/688149

Had to install a PPA to get access to the legacy driver. Restarting after installation was required but no crashes after that. Installing chrome and successfully tested netflix.

Thanks for helping me through this, guys. It was fun getting my hands dirty with linux even thought it was technically a waste of time. Did a bunch of stuff like manual interface config, wget, etc in the process. Was fun.

[oshunluvr]

It was fun getting my hands dirty with linux even thought it was technically a waste of time.

I whole-heartedly disagree with the above statement. IMO, learning something new is never a waste of time, even if it wasn't fun. Learning is why we exist. How boring would the universe be if we knew everything?

I have being using linux since 2006 and I still learn new stuff all the time. Trust me on this, linux is a path of learning and there is no final destination. One of the great joys of linux (for me at least) is conquering problems like this one and the satisfaction that comes from it. I hope you enjoy using and learning about linux as I have, good luck to you and welcome to KFN.

[GreyGeek]

Thanks for posting your solution, Elliot!